Fact #122799

Much as I loved Buffy Sainte-Marie back in the days when she wrote Universal Soldier, Codine, Until It’s Time For You To Go, and other folk-rock protest classics, I had no serious expectations from this, her 20th album. It’s good to have your expectations over-turned now and again, so I’m delighted to report that Buffy took me entirely by surprise with a dozen songs that ingeniously combine her folk roots with techno beats and rhythms bringing a new validity and vitality to her Native-American-inspired craft. At the age of 74, she also sounds genuinely angry, as befits any politically-inclined songsmith, on cuts like Not The Lovin’ Kind and The Uranium War.
(Source : Johnny Black review in Hi Fi News, June 2015)