Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.105)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003"Rolling Stone (3/6/03, p.69)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "FREE may be her most beautiful album....There are gaunt rock songs and ramshackle ballads, all painted with bold, sure strokes..." Spin (3/03, pp.119-20)
- 8 out of 10 - "Marshall has never sounded this in control of her demons..." Spin (p.108)
- "[S]he sings in her sultry Georgian accent." Entertainment Weekly (2/21/03, p.150)
- "[Marshall's] voice remains a dusky hush, turning songs by John Lee Hooker and cult folkie Michael Hurley into spooky whispers..." - Rating: B Uncut (01/04, pp.84-7)
- Ranked #40 in Uncut's "Albums Of The Year 2003" Uncut (3/03, p.100)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "Everything Marshall touches has a hypnotic power that's eerily unsettling..." The Wire (01/04, p.38)
- Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year [2003]" The Wire (2/03, p.59)
- "The more upbeat songs of YOU ARE FREE have a simmering energy in keeping with the current vogue for refried garage rock..." CMJ (12/29/03, p.5)
- Ranked #5 in CMJ's "Top 10 of 2003" - "[This album finds Chan Marshall] settling into the role of her generation's Carole King..." Mojo (Publisher)
(01/01/04, p.58)
- Ranked #19 in Mojo's "The Best of 2003" Mojo (Publisher)
(3/03, p.102)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "YOU ARE FREE is the most stylistically varied Cat Power album....The sense of fragile lives on the verge of collapse is never far from the surface..." | 
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