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Folklore

by Nelly Furtado

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All Time

of 455,625

14,028
2000's

of 265,887

3,323
2003

of 34,566

466

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 2.4018 Folklore is ranked overall as 2.4018 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.4027 Folklore has an avg. critic score of 2.4027 out of 4 stars

Folklore Album Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly

By any measures of competent record-making and simple good taste, Nelly Furtado's music should clear the room. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Folklore is about the joy of making something new out of random elements, and few other albums this year have captured that pleasure as well as this one does

All Music Guide

While there are some interesting musical moments on Folklore -- enough to make it worth a listen -- the dogged seriousness and didactic worldview become a bit overbearing not long before the album is a quarter of the way finished, particularly since the fusion of worldbeat and adult alternative pop often seems heavy-handed. ...more

Rolling Stone

Folklore is a Whoa, Nelly! redux, without a single as good as "I'm Like a Bird. ...more

Yahoo! Music

It's a pretty sorry state of affairs when the greatest praise you can muster for an entire album is "hey, nice banjo". ...more

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Adrian Denning.co.uk

The review that appears at the top of this page for her d�but was actually one of the very earliest I wrote for the site. I didn't realise Nelly had been away for so long, and until I sat down and listened properly to 'Folklore', hadn't realised that...read the complete review at Adrian Denning.co.uk

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Mojo

Her melodies are stirring but the headstrong album only works to a limited...read the complete review at Mojo

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Dot Music

This album is nowhere near as imaginative or as interesting as its maker thinks it is....read the complete review at Dot Music

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The A.V. Club

The pattern of pop stardom often demands that breakout debut albums be followed by heavier, crazier sophomore efforts. But while Nelly Furtado's Folklore has a more serious tone than her sparkling 2000 hit Whoa, Nelly!, it represents a continuation, not...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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