Come Home To Mama
Martha Wainwright's third studio album was produced by Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda. Featuring guest spots from Sean Lennon, Wilco's Nels Cline, and Dirty Three's Jim White, it gets its title from the collection's centerpiece, the last song Wainwright's mother Kate McGarrigle wrote before dying of cancer.
It may not be cohesive or instant but Martha Wainwright's Come Home to Mama nevertheless confirms her as an important singer-songwriter of our time.
Canadian-American singer-songwriter and all-around hyphenated artist Martha Wainwright's third studio album, Come Home To…
The greater resonance of the affecting lyrics is coupled with deftly understated and graceful arrangements.
Martha Wainwright is an artist who has absolutely no fear of emotional honesty, a quality that has long figured strongly in her work (not everyone has the nerve to record a song called "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole" about their own semi-famous father), and she has plenty to open up about on her fifth album, Come Home to Mama.
With her third full studio album Come Home to Mama, the younger of music's most beige siblings since Oasis continues to settle nicely into Canada's throne of easy-listening bland-pop vacated all those years ago now by Shania Twain.
<p>Martha Wainwright contemplates motherhood on her third album but fails to match the power of her older songs, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong></p>
Some of Martha Wainwright's new set are heartbreakingly acute, and others downright cheeky, writes <strong>Maddy Costa</strong>
Rufus's sister almost delivers the album we've been waiting for. CD review by Russ Coffey