Honest Life
2016 studio album by Courtney Marie Andrews
Honest Life is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews from Phoenix, Arizona. It was released on August 19, 2016, via Mama Bird Recording Co. Recording sessions took place at Studio Litho in Seattle.
Critical reception
Honest Life was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 82, based on eight reviews. The aggregator AnyDecentMusic? has the critical consensus of the album at a 7.2 out of 10, based on six reviews. The aggregator Album of the Year assessed the critical consensus as 79 out of 100, based on nine reviews.
Neil McCormick of The Telegraph praised the album, saying "If this was a debut, we would be hailing Andrews as a precocious young genius. But perhaps, in this age of acceleration, amid a pop blizzard of viral memes and instant digital fame, the slow maturing of a truly substantial talent is something to really celebrate".
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