Bare (Annie Lennox album)

Bare
Studio album by
Released5 June 2003
StudioThe Aquarium (London)
Genre
Length49:23
Label
Producer
Annie Lennox chronology
Medusa
(1995)
Bare
(2003)
Songs of Mass Destruction
(2007)
Singles from Bare
  1. "Pavement Cracks"
    Released: June 2003
  2. "A Thousand Beautiful Things"
    Released: March 2004
  3. "Wonderful"
    Released: June 2004
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic68/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com[2]
AllMusic[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[4]
The Guardian[5]
Houston ChronicleA−[6]
Los Angeles Times[7]
The New York TimesPositive[8]
PopMattersPositive[9]
Rolling Stone[10]
Slant Magazine[11]

Bare is the third solo studio album by Scottish singer Annie Lennox, released in Europe on 5 June 2003 by 19 Recordings and RCA Records and in North America on 10 June 2003 by J Records. It peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart and number four on the US Billboard 200. The album has been certified Gold in both the UK and the US and was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 46th Grammy Awards.

The album was released with a DVD which included interviews and acoustic versions of songs by Lennox. The Japanese edition of the album features a version of Lennox's 1992 single "Cold" recorded live in Toronto.

  1. ^ "'Bare' reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  2. ^ "About.com Review". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  3. ^ Allmusic Review
  4. ^ Tucker, Ken (13 January 2003). "Bare Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  5. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (6 June 2003). "Bare Review". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
  6. ^ Clark, Michael D. (14 June 2003). "'Bare' by Annie Lennox". Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  7. ^ Hilburn, Robert (8 June 2003). "Record Rack: Another bang-up Metallica job". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
  8. ^ Holden, Stephen (28 November 2003). "Critic's Notebook; Old Songs Revisited By Voices of Today". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
  9. ^ Garrett, Daniel (13 August 2003). "Annie Lennox: Bare". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 15 December 2010.
  10. ^ Rolling Stone Review
  11. ^ Slant Magazine Review