All That We Let In

Indigo Girls | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sony
• Copy Protected
• ASIN: B0001CCY1A
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,318 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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59 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Give it time... it gets better. Too much production, though, February 23, 2004

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IndigoKare "indigokare" (San Francisco-area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All That We Let In (Audio CD)

Four stars is not accurate. I would give it 4.5 stars, but that is not an option with Amazon.

Let me say off the bat that I have had this CD for a few months (promo copy). At first listen, I wanted to throw it out of my car window and scream. The over-production and the arrangements drove me crazy. I had heard every song except for "Rise Up" live numerous times on tour over the past year. In fact, I have heard most of the songs from their earliest rawest forms before the album was even recorded. I felt that a lot of what Amy and Emily were trying to say got lost in Peter Collins' arrangements.

After listening to it obsessivly for a month, it started growing on me. Sure, what happened to "Heartache for Everyone" is a shame. And I miss Amy, her mandolin, and nothing else on both "Cordova" and "Dairy Queen," but they are still great songs.

The lyrics are there -- they are classic Indigo. "Perfect World" and "Tether" (the best track on the album, in my opinion) are some of Amy's strongest songs, lyrically, ever. I would have had Michelle Malone do the backing vocals for "Tether" instead of Joan Osburn (Malone did backup vocals on the November 2003 tour) And "Come on Home," an unusually dark song for Emily, is classic Emily in that it will move you to tears. The finale, "Rise Up," leaves you feeling upbeat, more classic Emily.

All That We Let In is still Indigo despite the accordians, wurlitzers, pianos, organs, etc. Just imagine the songs stripped down (or make sure to get the limited edition with the DVD to hear/see some of the songs live and raw) It still will make you thank some force out there, for the millionth time, that Amy met Emily on that playground back in Decatur, and have brought their music, activsm, and of course just themeslves, into your life. I could have just done without some of the production and arrangements. (I still skip over "Heartache for Everyone" and listen to my boots instead...)

But give it time. I did, and I am enjoying it so much more now. I have been a hardcore Indigo Girls fan since 1989, and I have had every album on or before release date. Not everything is going to sound like their last album or their earlier albums, but you will see that despite everything else, the songs are still Indigo Girls songs.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars most accessible in recent years, February 21, 2004

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Melissa L. Hutchins (North Adams, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All That We Let In (Audio CD)

Let me start by saying that I am a big Indigo Girls fan. I have all their CD's. When I first got this one I was really shocked by the cartoon layout of the artwork through the whole album, but it really is quirky and cute. I think it's a nice change and it goes well with the mood of the album itself.

This CD is full of back to basics with the beautiful harmonies we have come to expect from Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Overall it's upbeat and much more accessible than Come On Now Social or Become You, two CD's that had to grow on many people. I have taken to All That We Let In within the first two listen throughs and I already know that it's going to be in heavy rotation in my stereo in the coming months.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Recording in Years, March 19, 2004

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"areslei" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All That We Let In (Audio CD)

I have been a loyal Indigo Girls fan for the past fifteen years with copies of pretty much EVERYTHING available from them. "All That We Let In" is probably my favorite album from them with the exception of "1200 Curfews". Their lyrics are extremely well written and the harmonies are beautiful. With "All That We Let In", Amy and Emily remain bards in their quest to voice their opinions and experiences that make the songs theirs, but with such emotion that each song can truly become the song of the listener. There is not one song on this album that I do not like. The title track, "All That We Let In", "Perfect World", "Dairy Queen", can all easily be labled as their best-written songs. The entire album is more upbeat than their past few releases, yet extremely emotional. I have not yet one person who cannot relate to each and every song on this recording.