24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault
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24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault
24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault is the eighth solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks, released on September 30, 2014, through Reprise Records. -Wikipedia
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Ultimate Classic Rock
A bigger surprise is how warm and spirited Nick still sounds.
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Rolling Stone
Nicks conjures the old black-lace magic and makes it feel new.
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Slant Magazine
Nick has always given us just enough snatches of insight to keep us wondering the very same thing.
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Music OMH
Nothing on 24 Karat Gold comes close to classic Fleetwood Mac songs, but long-term fans will delight in hearing decently recorded versions of tracks that they may otherwise only have heard as scratchy demos.
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Vintage Rock
For the more scrutinizing ear, one will find 24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault to be a one-time-listen-to album, something to be tucked away, along with the other Fleetwood Mac-related albums one may own, but quite unlikely ever to be pulled out again.
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Renowned for Sound
There are genuine ’24 Karat Gold’ gems on this collection that are a revealing reflection of Stevie’s vivid memories at various points in her life.
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Paste Magazine
For as much as her acolytes wish they could twirl in chiffon scarves and platforms, few remain as ageless or beyond the clock as Nicks; in that gap ripples the nostalgia that stains these songs.
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Record Collector Mag
Solo Stevie shines up some oldies.
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Cryptic Rock
Building a path for the women of rock and roll, Nicks left no stone unturned and no experience in the shadows with her latest release.
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Stevie Nicks Info
24 Karat Gold contains a few tinpot tracks that even the Nashville boys couldn’t fix. Most, too, spill over the five-minute mark. but as fresh testament from one of Rock’s great survivors, it makes for a fascinating listen.
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PPCorn
It takes the listener on a journey through Nicks’ life, and reveals sides of the artist that are refreshing at this point in her career. It is obvious that she has no plans on slowing down.
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Irish Times
Nicks’ voice is always a thing of wonder; from easy-listening Laurel Canyon-type stylings to fuzzed-out rock and electrified folk, she can handle anything.
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NY Daily News
We get pure Stevie — needier than some might find comfortable, but also unexpectedly wise. It's too much for the casual listener but catnip for the devoted.
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Pop Matters
With such a mix of songs spanning almost 40 years, Stevie Nicks proves that if you open the vault, you might as well empty it out.
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All Music
It's a good thing she dug through her back pages and finished these songs, as she's wound up with one of her strongest albums.
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Boston Globe
Nicks sounds classic.
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Kilburn Times
Old, half-finished songs picked up, dusted down and fully realised by Nicks in all her croaky, wizened glory.
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Spectrum Culture
The album can’t completely avoid feeling like a collection of old songs spruced up in a three-month studio stint, but it definitely coheres.
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All Music
It's a good thing she dug through her back pages and finished these songs, as she's wound up with one of her strongest albums.
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The Musical Hype
Consistent and enjoyable throughout, Stevie Nicks reminds everyone why she’s such a revered musician on 24 Karat Gold.
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Fleetwood Mac UK
In spite of its length, these reshaped, refined offcuts only serve to bolster Nicks’ impressive catalogue.
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LSU Reveille
Her performance on the album comes off as overly produced with questionable mixing.
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Rebeat Mag
What is most remarkable about 24 Karat Gold though is that is manages to stay true to the sound and feel of the era of each of its tracks, yet still sounds completely contemporary.
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Louder Sound
This is a treat.
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Neon Tommy
The album paints a picture of the icon Nicks is.
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Team Procreate
I thoroughly enjoyed this album and am happy to see that old habits die hard when it comes to the classics and the people who helped pioneer an entire genre of music.
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San Diego Reader
Some of the lyrics sound fatally like her diary with the names and even suggestive initials snipped — how did she end up with one of the most amazing albums of the year?
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Chicago Reader
Stevie Nicks reaches into her ‘dark gothic trunk of magical, mysterious things’.
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Femme Metal Webzine
With “24 Karat Gold” Stevie Nicks proves that she still has the ability to mesmerize and astound with her voice. While this may not be her finest hour, Stevie Nicks proves that she’s still got it.
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Super Verbose
The only thing I wish is that for some of those songs which already had a very good demo, we could somehow have a vocal from the Stevie of the era in which they were written. Nicks’ voice has grown deeper and throatier over the years, and while it suits many songs, it doesn’t suit all of them.
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Vancouver Weekly
The landscape of music will forever be changed for the better thanks to the enigmatic sorcery of Stevie Nicks.
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Fun to Funky
Delightfully and unsurprisingly, it feels like an album that is totally and utterly her.
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