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Albumism’s 100 Best Albums of 2020 | #32: Katie Melua’s ‘Album No. 8’

December 2, 2020 Albumism Staff
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#32 | KATIE MELUA | Album No. 8
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According to Quentin Harrison: “Given all that Melua had achieved in the seventeen-year wake of Call Off The Search, she is still a woman possessed by the restless spirit of creativity….Album No. 8—from top to bottom—is a record teeming with musical intelligence and imagination; it is also an elegant statement of Melua’s power, which should never be underestimated going forward.”

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