Pick Me Up Off The Floor
| Norah Jones
Pick Me Up Off The Floor
Pick Me Up Off the Floor is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones. The album was released on June 12, 2020, by Blue Note Records. -Wikipedia
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Variety
“Pick Me Up Off the Floor” is a cohesive journey reflecting both tragically and sweetly on the amorphous cloud of heartache that lingers in these moments of pain, offering a hand to help us out of the fog.
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musicOMH
At times Pick Me Up Off The Floor feels like a welcoming musical refuge. It’s an intimate, empathising support mechanism of an album, well-placed to respond to the emotional needs of listeners during these turbulent times.
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Soundigest
Pick Me Up Off The Floor is her seventh solo studio album and it does not disappoint. The convincing LP depicts a spectrum of emotion from lust to hurt. Emotional welfare is what Jones does exceptionally well.
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Sungenre
Pick Me Up Off The Floor isn’t meant to reinvent the wheel but that’s not the point: for someone like Jones to be able to produce a minimal but rewarding record like this all these years after her colossal debut is the real triumph.
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Hotpress
there’s a warmth throughout Pick Me Up Off The Floor for a world that needs plenty right now.
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The Independent
One of the most intriguing records she’s released in years.
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The Guardian
Jones is as melodious as ever, but can’t smooth over everything…
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mxdwn
Old fans and new fans alike will find something to love about Pick Me Up Off The Floor. Whether it’s her pretty and nostalgic voice, her lyrical vulnerability or just the one-of-a-kind harmony brought together by melting many genres together, Jones never disappoints.
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The Times
These songs are the (slightly) weird ones that got away, where Norah Jones took risks and allowed herself greater depth of expression.
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The Standard
Long lost tracks tell tales of heartbreak and the power of womanhood.
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All Music
This blend of warmth and invention is what's so appealing about Pick Me Up Off the Floor: the shape may seem familiar, but the construction of the songs and the inventiveness of the performance keeps it fresh and surprising even after the first listen.
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Spectrum Culture
Jones doesn’t sound like she’s in a great place throughout the album, but she upends any despair with the performances themselves, ultimately finding lyrical hope, too. She pulls this potentially scattered energy into a tight focus, picking herself up. These songs, like Jones’s protagonists, were nearly left on the proverbial cutting room floor, but they’ve turned out to be stronger than anticipated.
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The Arts Desk
It is probably her best album in ten years.
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Flood Magazine
Pick Me Up Off the Floor is filled with rejected songs and collaborative ventures snatched from obscurity. It’s surprising how cohesive it sounds, knowing its background. Jones carries the concept of the torch song forward and she is still an impressive singer and piano player eight albums into her illustrious career.
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Cryptic Rock
On Pick Me Up Off the Floor, she captains a journey that is both personal and societal, one that connects with her listeners in its intimate moods born of loss and reflection. Intended to guide each of us toward our own light, it is both burdened by weighty emotions and a haunting darkness, but ultimately brimming with hope and love. In this, Pick Me Up Off the Floor is what the world needs now: a musical tonic.
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Montreal Rocks
It is an album of great reflection and depth. Norah Jones commands your attention and forces you to look at things that aren’t always easy. This is not background music.
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The Young Folks
Norah Jones’s latest album is most powerful in its sonic palette.
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Spill Magazine
Pick Me Up Off the Floor is not a pop record, not in the sense that it sticks to any set formula. You’ve got, soul, jazz, gospel, Americana and a combination of those and other music genres here. And Jones and her collaborators make these combinations sound as if they were always made for each other.
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Sound in Review
ick Me Up Off The Floor is a cohesive collection of songs, showing Jones can pull from all directions and come up with something compelling and musical. 4/5
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Blue Note Records
acceptance of the things we can’t change, and gratitude for the good that we get. In that way, Pick Me Up Off the Floor offers catharsis to anyone who gets caught in its warm embrace.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Norah Jones is here to calm you with an unhurried album that satisfies quietly.
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Albumism
Pick Me Up Off The Floor doesn’t overstep its boundaries musically or try too hard to be preachy with its lyrical content. It just succeeds in reminding us listeners that Jones can consistently serve a soothing collection of music that calms the nerves in extremely tense times. 4/5
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Glide Magazine
To these ears, and to those of many, Norah Jones is indeed a blessing sent our way.
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No Depression
Pick Me Up Off the Floor radiates with lyrical brilliance and a musical genius, capturing the hope and light that lie within the ragged ambiguities of life. The sublime beauty of these songs lives within the listener even after the final notes of the closing song fade out.
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Thank Folk For That
It’s not everyday that you get to hear a nine-time Grammy Award winner like Norah Jones spill her soul out so poetically and beautifully. Every song in this record will catch your attention and make you want to listen more than once.
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Ambient Light Blog
Yes, this album sounds great but nothing could beat it as live performance. Hopefully, we’ll get to hear this in the not too distant future.
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Vinyl Chapters
For an album of tailored collaborations and session style pieces, Pick Me Up Off The Floor feels like one of Norah Jone’s most rounded records. As a whole, the album peaks and troughs in a vibrant way as the singer deals with emotional baggage in an often calm and ratifying manner.
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Bernard Zuel
Without ever being explicit, neither naming names nor identifying a struggle, Pick Me Up Off The Floor feels like a record made in the eddy of these past few years of turbulence - political, financial, medical, social, intellectual, emotional.
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