Vanessa Carlton
Heroes & Thieves
Release Date: Oct 9, 2007
Genre(s): Rock, Pop
Record label: The Inc.
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Album Review: Heroes & Thieves by Vanessa Carlton
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Entertainment Weekly - 72
Based on rating B
Based on rating B
After splitting with A&M in 2005, piano-pop ingenue Vanessa Carlton signed with The Inc. (formerly Murder Inc.), the label best known for hip-hop/R&B acts Ja Rule and Ashanti. Despite the new digs, her third album, Heroes & Thieves, doesn’t signal an urban revamp — no duets with rasping rappers, no recycled soul samples. She instead plays it safe and sticks to the ornate, sentimental formula of her Grammy-nominated debut, Be Not Nobody, and critically heralded but sales-impaired follow-up, Harmonium.