Feels Like Home | ||||
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Studio album by Norah Jones | ||||
Released | February 10, 2004 | |||
Recorded | 2003-2004 | |||
Genre | Jazz, Country | |||
Length | 46:26 | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Producer | Norah Jones, Arif Mardin | |||
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Singles from Feels Like Home | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 74/100 |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
Entertainment Weekly | B |
Los Angeles Times | |
New York Times | (mixed) |
PopMatters | |
Q | |
Robert Christgau | |
Rolling Stone | |
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Yahoo! Music UK |
Feels Like Home is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones, released on February 10, 2004, through Blue Note Records. It serves as the follow up to Jones' 2002 breakthrough album, Come Away with Me.
At the 47th Annual Grammy Awards the album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album. "Sunrise", the album's lead single, won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. "Creepin' In", featuring Dolly Parton, was also nominated for a Grammy, in the category of Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.
Feels Like Home received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 74 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 19 reviews.
Yahoo! Music gave the album a favorable review and said, "Recalling Come Away With Me only for Jones’s sultry voice, the album has its share of pleasant throwaways, but those are balanced by a handful of starkly beautiful and excellently arranged songs."The A.V. Club also gave it a favorable review and stated that the album "should neither shock old fans nor disappoint those hoping to hear [Jones] reach for more."E! Online gave it a B+ and said, "Instead of making any stupid concessions to her sudden celebrity... the Home girl plays it cool, carrying on with the same smooth vibes that made her a star."Spin also gave it a B+, calling it "A better record than Come Away--less piano bar, more honkey-tonk."Mojo gave it four stars out of five and said the album was "similar to the debut.... But there's a more vivid light-and-shade to the textures and a craft and depth to the compositions that represent a welcome distillation of Jones' art."The Village Voice gave the album a positive review and stated, "If the choice of songs and beat and instrumentation were sometimes restrictive, still the piano and the voice endured."Blender gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said that its mood was "more or less the same, if slight friskier."