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  • Summary: This is the debut album for Julie Ann Baenziger, who wrote, sang, and played all the instruments on the release.
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
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  1. 80
    Singer Julie Baenziger, aka Julie Ann Bee, whose debut album reveals a similar mix of emotional openness and affinity for the natural world as Laura Veirs, with something of Veirs's inquistive approach to musical textures, too.
  2. Q Magazine
    May 6, 2011
    80
    She does more than enough to establish herself as a contender. [Mar 2011, p.112]
  3. Mojo
    May 6, 2011
    80
    Baenziger takes nothing for granted when it comes to arrangements. where the song demands it, electronic textures are favoured--instincts which bear rich fruit on Willis and Skinnybone. [Apr 2011, p.95]
  4. May 6, 2011
    67
    Nom de musique of Julie Ann Baenziger, her Sea of Bees diffuses California pop by turns dreamy and atmospheric – folky – and perhaps even a bit precious.
  5. May 6, 2011
    60
    It's a lovely sound, and a heartfelt one, but not always as affecting as it might be.
  6. May 6, 2011
    60
    Overall, the compelling outweighs the tedious.
  7. May 6, 2011
    40
    In the sense of everything common and respectively boring, the majority of Songs for the Ravens doesn't pull off anything new and exciting.

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