Under Rug Swept

AlbumFeb 25 / 200211 songs, 50m 29s94%
Pop Rock Singer-Songwriter
Popular

We delight in Alanis Morissette\'s seeming inability to keep her mouth shut when it comes to spilling a dirty little secret. So it\'s comforting to know that despite the title of this 2002 release, she\'s not interested in forgiving and forgetting anytime soon. Filled with crunchy guitars, dissonant harmonies, dense lyrics, and dreamy choruses, songs like \"Hands Clean\" and \"21 Things I Want in a Lover\" push Morissette\'s nakedly emotional lyrics to new levels of cathartic tension and release.

8.4 / 10

** \n\n\ One of the great, universal inspirations throughout the history of rock and roll\n\ has been the death ...

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The album glows when the singer focuses on the unambitious melodies that follow you long after the disc comes sputtering to an end.

<p>Alanis Morissette gets wistful, Sahara Hotnights pen naughty juvenile anthems, and Billy Bragg finds a new England. Plus the rest of the new pop.</p>

3.5 / 5

Alanis Morissette - Under Rug Swept review: Alanis' moody album full of subdued melodies which when combined with her fragile vocals helps create an album that goes beyond the upbeat and shallow Pop she normally produces.

4 / 10