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Post by uǝɥʇɐǝɥ on May 20, 2016 12:13:09 GMT -5
Yes, it's the typicall mainstream jazz, as expected. But I like his attitude.
It's a decent follow up to UNOS but not a glorious comeback.
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Post by uǝɥʇɐǝɥ on May 20, 2016 12:25:43 GMT -5
Hold On is a potential classic, cheesy but easy  |
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Post by glider on May 20, 2016 13:51:17 GMT -5
This album isn't all that bad to be honest, 'These People' and 'They Don't Own Me' are great tracks.
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Post by Jim on May 20, 2016 15:13:41 GMT -5
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Post by captainsoul on May 20, 2016 18:08:33 GMT -5
I love the new abum!!
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Post by Lennon2217 on May 20, 2016 20:34:07 GMT -5
A decent effort by Mad Richard. Definitely better than his two previous albums (Keys To The World, United Nation of Sound). My favs are Out of My Body, This Is How It Feels, Hold On, These People.
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Post by glider on May 20, 2016 20:37:44 GMT -5
They Don't Own Me is going to be classic one for sure. Otherwise my other favorites are:
Out of My Body
This Is How It Feels (I enjoyed it when it first came out as well)
These People
Still, that's 4 out of 10 songs on the album. The rest are meh to ok.
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Post by mkoasis on May 20, 2016 21:25:12 GMT -5
I'm listening to it right now for the first time. It's okay. I was a little apprehensive to actually listen to it, fearing it would be dreadful. Everybody Needs Somebody to Hurt is the best track so far.
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Post by carlober on May 21, 2016 4:30:37 GMT -5
They Don't Own Me is great.
These People and Hold On are really good (despite the odd cheesiness here and there). Out of My Body sounds fresh and it grew on me a lot after a few listens!
Everybody Needs Somebody to Hurt is desperately looking for some McCabe-ish guitar licks...
The rest is (unfortunately) Richard on autopilot again. Not bad, but quite forgettable... too many songs sound rather samey to me and they drag on a bit. Fuck me, the shortest song is nearly 5 minutes long!
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2016 6:13:34 GMT -5
They Don't Own Me is great. These People and Hold On are really good (despite the odd cheesiness here and there). Out of My Body sounds fresh and it grew on me a lot after a few listens! Everybody Needs Somebody to Hurt is desperately looking for some McCabe-ish guitar licks... The rest is (unfortunately) Richard on autopilot again. Not bad, but quite forgettable... too many songs sound rather samey to me and they drag on a bit. Fuck me, the shortest song is nearly 5 minutes long! I personally prefer the songs like aint the future so bright, songs of experience, hold on and out of my body cause theyre abit different, the songs like these people and this is how it feels are in the vibe Ive heard many times over from ashcroft. everybody needs someone to hurt does feel like something that belongs on forth. |
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Post by spud on May 21, 2016 9:50:28 GMT -5
Decent songs on this, shame the production's so naff. Probably a better collection of songs than Chasing Yesterday.
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Post by Flatulence Panic on May 21, 2016 9:57:27 GMT -5
They Don't Own Me is great. These People and Hold On are really good (despite the odd cheesiness here and there). Out of My Body sounds fresh and it grew on me a lot after a few listens! Everybody Needs Somebody to Hurt is desperately looking for some McCabe-ish guitar licks... The rest is (unfortunately) Richard on autopilot again. Not bad, but quite forgettable... too many songs sound rather samey to me and they drag on a bit. Fuck me, the shortest song is nearly 5 minutes long!Richards attempt to out Be Here Now, Be Here Now.  |
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Post by Jack on May 21, 2016 10:29:51 GMT -5
'How The West Was Lost' is basically an instrumental with Richard humming and speaking some words over it. It's pretty nice, sounds like it could be part of a Quentin Tarantino western soundtrack.
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Post by mystoryisgory on May 21, 2016 13:16:05 GMT -5
Who would've thought that a "modern" sound to his songs, complete with naff synths and dance beats, would give Richard Ashcroft's music newfound energy? However, the songs are the same as they ever were. Generic, generic with strings, and generic with faux emotion. It's quite unfair to compare Richard solo to the Verve, considering that he'll never write another Bittersweet Symphony, but in the words of the Verve: this is muzak.
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Post by Lennon2217 on May 21, 2016 13:49:35 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2016 14:04:15 GMT -5
Ive only skimmed over that review but it does kind of annoy how a lot of these reviews cant help mentioning the verve every other line, I understand they are using it as a bench mark to see how it measure up but its not really the same thing, its like mentioning how say lock all the doors doesnt measure up to live forever your not playing the game with all the same players there, comparing work done almost 20 years ago seems abit daft to me. |
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Post by captainsoul on May 21, 2016 14:11:26 GMT -5
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Post by carlober on May 21, 2016 14:20:51 GMT -5
Never listen to what Pitchfork says.
The boys on there can write and some of them actually know quite a lot about music, but in the heart they're a just a bunch of snobby and annoying hipsters.
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Post by The Escapist on May 21, 2016 15:01:46 GMT -5
Not feeling this at all. Just another over-produced, cliched Ashcroft solo album. Some catchy choruses and his voice is still majestic (if sometimes a little forced, like he's trying to sound emotional), but the dance beats are just embarrassing, and the lyrics aren't much better. It's solid, and that's more than you can say for a lot of his albums, but it's never truly inspired.
Richard's talent - still shining through the cracks - just doesn't suit domestic bliss. His genius shone when fuelled as much by loneliness, anger, and damaged ego as it was by melody and craft. He's still got the melody, the craft is within reach, but his ego has become comfortable and it's destroyed his creativity. You just know he'll take an easy, sting-soaked collection of "deep anthems" to routinely feed his ego over actually opening himself to criticism or taking risks every single time.
Great voice and refound consistency aside, it ultimately still feels like an album done out of habit rather than need. Not terrible, but slightly disappointing. I'd say 6/10, achieved almost exclusively through This is How it Feels and They Don't Own Me.
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Post by spud on May 21, 2016 17:09:01 GMT -5
I like Ain't The Future So Bright.
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Post by glider on May 21, 2016 18:02:48 GMT -5
Pitchfork is to the music industry as Polygon is to the gaming industry. Both full of incompetent, 1st world entitled social justice warriors who impose their neo-post modernist worldviews. Both neither focus nor have respectful talent to analysing music and games, and focus on how much liberal content is force-fed into it than actual artistic substance. |
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Post by Jack on May 21, 2016 18:03:35 GMT -5
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Post by glider on May 22, 2016 0:08:16 GMT -5
Good lord Forth is just so good. I'm re-listening to Vallium Skies and it's just fantastic.
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Post by space75gr on May 22, 2016 3:38:00 GMT -5
not the album i wanted to hear from RA but i m gonna give it a few more chances...Not bad but on the other hand not a really great one. Need definitely a few more listens to clear up my mind about it.
"This is How it feels" is a highlight, a real RA anthem up with his best work.
"Picture of you" is a also a great track, a simple acoustic number, with a haunting and beautiful melody, with melancholic feeling and emotion. Sounds insiring and original, fresh, without production tricks. Quality tune, a song that could have a place in Northern Soul or even Urban Hymns. A highlight.
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Post by idleroses on May 22, 2016 8:13:58 GMT -5
Good lord Forth is just so good. I'm re-listening to Vallium Skies and it's just fantastic. It's twice as good when on valium!! |
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