Reviews
Ranked #37 in Uncut's "Albums Of The Year 2003", 4 stars out of 5 - "...This is an exuberant return to gorgeous melodies, dynamic arrangements and a sharper focus on life and love. The musical scope is breathtaking...", 4 stars out of 5 - "This is a record of breathtaking, eccentric opulence....WANT ONE is a valentine to monogamy - craving it, not getting it, not quite giving up...", "A sweeping, dramatic, big, broad and brash record - it's grand in its aspirations, and it delivers quite beautifully...", Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003", Ranked #21 in Mojo's "The Best of 2003", "...A gorgeous meditation on emotional displacement, on finding yourself adrift when you want to love and be loved....If Sondheim had been reared on old Van Dyke Parks records, he might sound like this..." - Rating: A-, 4 stars out of 5 - "...WANT ONE takes his lush, orchestrated pop to staggering new heights...", 4 stars out of 5 - "...Regret-filled ruminations like '14th St.' and 'Vicious World' perfectly evoke his old man's early Atlantic work..."
