Feels like Home is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones,released on February 10,2004,through Blue Note Records. Featuring an alternative country sound,it serves as the follow-up to her 2002 breakthrough album,Come Away with Me. Jones co-wrote five of its songs and worked with Arif Mardin,as the main producer.
The album was received with generally positive reviews from critics,who compared it to her debut. It was also a commercial success,selling over a million copies in its first week and topping the Billboard 200 for six consecutive weeks,becoming the second-best selling album of 2004. It has sold over 12 million copies worldwide.
Feels like Home received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic,which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics,the album has an average score of 74 out of 100,which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 19 reviews.[2]
Writing for Yahoo! Music,Ken Micallef gave the album a favorable review and said,"Recalling Come Away With Me only for Jones's sultry voice,the album has its share of pleasant throwaways,but those are balanced by a handful of starkly beautiful and excellently arranged songs."[13]The A.V. Club's Keith Phipps also gave it a favorable review and stated that the album "should neither shock old fans nor disappoint those hoping to hear [Jones] reach for more."[14]E! Online gave it a B+ and said,"Instead of making any stupid concessions to her sudden celebrity... the Home girl plays it cool,carrying on with the same smooth vibes that made her a star."[2]Spin also gave it a B+,calling it "A better record than Come Away--less piano bar,more honkey-tonk."[2]Mojo gave it four stars out of five and said the album was "similar to the debut.... But there's a more vivid light-and-shade to the textures and a craft and depth to the compositions that represent a welcome distillation of Jones' art."[2]The Village Voice gave the album a positive review and stated,"If the choice of songs and beat and instrumentation were sometimes restrictive,still the piano and the voice endured."[15]Blender gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said that its mood was "more or less the same,if slight friskier."[2]
Other reviews are average,mixed or negative:Uncut gave the album three stars out of five and stated that,"Yes,it's an unchallenging and even deeply conservative record. But its class is positively aristocratic."[16]The Austin Chronicle gave it two stars out of five and said,"Material is everything to a chanteuse,and in contrast to Come Away With Me,the problem here is that Jones wrote/co-wrote almost half of the Home's 13 tracks."[17]The Guardian only gave it one star out of five and said that the album was "so inoffensive you have trouble remembering whether you put it on."[18]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
References
↑ "Feels Like Home". No Depression. January 17, 2019. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
↑ "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved November 12, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
↑ オリコン年間 アルバムランキング 2004年度[Oricon Annual CD Album Ranking 2004] (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on January 24, 2019. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
↑ "O-Zone foi o grupo que mais vendeu em Portugal em 2004"[O-Zone was the group's biggest selling in Portugal in 2004] (in Portuguese). RTP Notícias. January 12, 2005. Retrieved January 6, 2021. "How to dismantle an atomic bomb", dos U2, já editado em Novembro, surge em quarto lugar e "Feels Like Home", de Norah Jones, figura em sétimo.[U2's "How to dismantle an atomic bomb", released in November, comes in fourth place and "Feels Like Home", by Norah Jones, figures in seventh.]
↑ "Top 50 Albumes 2004"(PDF) (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España. Archived from the original(PDF) on March 26, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
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