Evolve (Ani DiFranco album)

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Evolve
Ani DiFranco - Evolve.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 11, 2003
Genre
Length57:29
Label Righteous Babe
Producer Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco chronology
So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
(2002)
Evolve
(2003)
Educated Guess
(2004)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic (63/100) [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The A.V. Club (negative) [3]
Billboard (favorable) [4]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Chicago Tribune (favorable) [5]
Drowned in Sound (8/10) [6]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [7]
PopMatters (6/10) [1] [8]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Slant Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]

Evolve is the 12th studio album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music). The album won DiFranco and Brian Grunert a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 2004. [12] This album is more eclectic and stylistically venturous than DiFranco's previous works, experimenting with styles such as jazz and funk.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Ani DiFranco.

No.TitleLength
1."Promised Land"4:30
2."In the Way"5:17
3."Icarus"4:51
4."Slide"3:50
5."O My My"3:59
6."Evolve"4:15
7."Shrug"4:42
8."Phase"3:42
9."Here for Now"3:09
10."Second Intermission"3:51
11."Serpentine"10:26
12."Welcome To:"4:57
Japanese bonus track
No.TitleLength
12."Your Next Bold Move (live version from the movie "Render")" 

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (2003)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA Charts) [13] 61
US Billboard 200 30

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Critic reviews at Metacritic
  2. Allmusic review
  3. The A.V. Club review
  4. "Billboard review". Billboard . Archived from the original on March 21, 2003. Retrieved June 29, 2013.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. Chicago Tribune review
  6. "Drowned in Sound review". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  7. "Entertainment Weekly review". Archived from the original on August 7, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  8. PopMatters review
  9. "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2007.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. Slant review
  11. "Ani DiFranco – Evolve". Uncut : 104. June 2003. Retrieved June 29, 2013.[ permanent dead link ]
  12. "Ani Difranco | the Evolve Packaging". Archived from the original on April 19, 2008. Retrieved April 4, 2008. Evolve Wins the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
  13. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 81.