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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from British singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt was self-produced.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
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  1. Record Collector
    Jun 10, 2024
    100
    From glam-tinged art-rock to spellbinding chamber-soul, this ever-elegant examination of the heart and the mind is like Bukowski rifling through priceless musical boxes and releasing a thousand hummingbirds. .... Magnificent heaven. [Mar 2024, p.103]
  2. Apr 5, 2024
    80
    The yearning title track brings to a close an album that is quite probably Harcourt’s best since Here Be Monsters.
  3. Apr 5, 2024
    80
    Bob and weave as he might, Harcourt never fails to land an emotional punch on El Magnifico.
  4. Uncut
    Apr 5, 2024
    80
    El Magnifico finds him much the same bruised piano troubadour, surveying red-blooded romantic scars. [March 2024, p.28]
  5. Mojo
    Apr 5, 2024
    60
    It's the LP's sparer, outward-looking, more spontaneous-sounding songs which house the best melodies. [May 2024, p.85]