Half the Perfect World
Half the Perfect World is the fourth studio album by American jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux. It was released on September 12, 2006. It peaked at No. 33 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and had sold 218,000 copies in the United States by December 2008.
| Half the Perfect World | ||||
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| Studio album by Madeleine Peyroux | ||||
| Released | September 12, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | April 2006 | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 48:56 | |||
| Label | Rounder/Universal | |||
| Producer | Larry Klein | |||
| Madeleine Peyroux chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| ARTISTdirect.com | |
| Being There Magazine | |
| The Guardian | |
| JazzPolice.com | (NR) |
| Mojo | |
| musicOMH.com | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| inthenews.co.uk | |
The album contains four original songs, all of them co-written by Peyroux, and cover versions of songs by Johnny Mercer, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Charlie Chaplin, Serge Gainsbourg, and Leonard Cohen. "I'm All Right," "A Little Bit" and "Once in a While" were released as singles.
David Dye listed the album at number 10 on World Cafe's list of the top 10 CDs of 2006.
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