Love And Its Opposite
~ Tracey Thorn

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'This is adult pop in the best sense: reflective, compassionate, drily witty' / THE WORD

'Absolutely fantastic. A really, really brilliant record' / ALEXIS PETRIDIS, THE GUARDIAN MUSIC PODCAST

'What hooks you in, now, as ever, is that voice' * * * * / MOJO

'A grown-up record that is never boring ... powerful and poignant' / GARETH GRUNDY, THE OBSERVER

'Thorn's voice ... brings each song to genuine life and invests it with heart-snagging emotion' * * * * / THE GUARDIAN

'A real grown-up gem' * * * * / THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Searing honesty, bleak humour and a voice that has improved with age ... An album of inspired adult-pop' * * ** / DAILY MAIL

'Lyrically it's about as good as it gets' / DAILY EXPRESS

'Starkly beautiful. Cool, contemporary and proof that age hasn't diminuished a special talent' * * * * / THE SUN

'Often sad, yet always warmly sympathetic it is a well-weighted, smartly observed collection' / Q

'Thorn's best work since Everything But The Girl. Give her another couple of years and she could well be eligible for national treasure status' * * * * / MUSICOMH.COM

'Smart, sophisticated and well-worth investigating' / CLASH

'Each song is a steath bomb of tender poignancy' * * * * / THE INDEPENDENT

'Confirms that her taste is more than a match for her natural assets' * * * * / THE TIMES

'Thorn tackles divorce, kids and singledom with elegant incisiveness ... this is brooding at its most compelling.' / ATTITUDE

'A haunting and heartfelt solo album' * * * * / THE SUNDAY EXPRESS

'She remains the queen of bedsit poetry' * * * * / NEWS OF THE WORLD

'The unfathomably everyday magic of that voice, unconfident but confiding, and technicality-free yet effortlessly soulful, remains brilliantly undimmed. With this album, she's left in everything but the girliness, and, for such a singular endeavour, it's reaped handsome rewards.' / THE QUIETUS

'A tapestry of love and loss.' Album Of The Month / SHE Magazine

'The songs resonate with a mature passion and an elegant wisdom' / THELINEOFBESTFIT.COM

'A pathos-filled electro-folk stunner' / ANDY GENSLER, NEW YORK TIMES

'The matter-of-fact acceptance in Tracey Thorn's voice only brings out the heartache in 'Love And Its Opposite'' / JON PARELES, PLAYLIST, NEW YORK TIMES

'Love And Its Opposite' resides firmly in the current moment. The album also draws a line toward Nashville. Thorn would surely consider it an honor to stand among several gernerations of country stars - male and female - who have proved that there's more to ageing gracefully than showing off a hard body and a feline heart. With 'Love And Its Opposite', she earns that place. / ANN POWERS, LA TIMES

'Tracey Thorn has added a fantastic album to her solo catalogue' / SASHA FRERE-JONES, THE NEW YORKER

'Hands-down one of the best releases of 2010' / AWL.COM

'The change of musical scenery hardly disrupts the caliber and sophistication of Thorn's songcraft or the power of her inimitable voice, which remains as gloriously warm as ever.' / ALLMUSIC.COM