- She Makes Both Joy and Heartbreak Sound so Good

from Associated Content

- Peyroux is shockingly good ...

by Mark Runyon for PM Media Review (2/24/2005)

- ... "Careless Love" is like a musical marriage.

WBUR.org - Boston

- No false emotion: Madeleine Peyroux returns to interpret the greats

By Alan Lewis (5/27/2005)for the Vermont Guardian

- Third album by Lady Day devotee from Athens, Georgia
Norah Jones and Jane Monheit may have spawned a cutesy genre of jazz-lite chirping, but it's one that Peyroux neatly sidesteps. Here, less is definitely more. Accompanied by piano, guitar, string bass, lightly brushed snare drum and occasional gospel organ, Careless Love has the same live-in-the-studio ambience that made Peggy Lee's Black Coffee a benchmark album. An interpretive artist as opposed to a nothing-to-say singer-songwriter, Peyroux avoids the overworked wine bar songbook, bringing new sensibilities to Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me To The End Of Love" and Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go".

by Roy Carr for Uncut (issue 95) (thanks to Martin Shori)

- ...Peyroux is ten times the singer that Jones is...

by T.J. Simon for The Music Box (March 2005, Volume 12, #3)

- ...this is Madeleine Peyroux.

By Frankie Hagan (12/2004) for The Port Halcyon Daily Review

- ... this record evokes the restless after-hours mood of strolling on the streets of Paris...

By David Chiu for NewsBeats

- Im Namen Der Herrn. Mit Madleine Peyroux aufersteht Billie Holiday. (in German)

by Peter Rüedi for Die WeltWoche

- Young Lady Sings the Blues

by David Skinner (2/25/2005) for The Daily Standard

- The music that keeps us going ...
3. Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love: The sweet vocals of Peyroux graced the Vilar Center a few weeks ago and if you missed her live, it’s worth checking out her newest album. It’s taken Peyroux eight years to follow-up her debut album, Dreamland, and it was well worth the wait. Many people have compared her sound to Billie Holiday and we tend to agree. Either way, she moves seamlessly between tunes by W.C. Handy and Hank Williams to more contemporary songs by Leonard Cohen and Elliott Smith.

Vail Trail Issue Thursday, February 24, 2005

- ...then there are born jazz singers...

Ed Bumgardner (2/24/2005) for Relish Now!

- The singer who disappeared.  After 8 years, Madeleine Peyroux returns with 'Careless Love'

By Todd Leopold (1/12/2005), CNN

- ... this shy-looking American singer and guitarist has already being trumpeted as the find of 2005.

By Mark Hudson for telegraph.co.uk (2/7/2005)