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  • Summary: Art Garfunkel and his son, Art Garfunkel, Jr. collaborate on the 12-track covers album that features some of their favorites such as Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time", Cat Stevens' "Father And Son", and "Blackbird" by The Beatles.
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  1. Dec 2, 2024
    80
    This isn’t an album in the Simon & Garfunkel mould, a folk-tinged duo with a good-humoured foray into the past. There’s barely a guitar in sight, instead all violins and cellos, just a touch of electro going on amid the orchestrations that make it, at times, dark and moody, and always thoughtful and imaginative. The orchestrations are deftly arranged, far from simply a star singing with strings attached. [Christmas 2024, p.128]
  2. Uncut
    Dec 2, 2024
    70
    Even if the orchestrations on their first album together are more sentimental than cinematic, father and son harmonise gloriously, finding new emotions within 20th-century standards. [Review of the Year 2024, p.31]
  3. Mojo
    Dec 2, 2024
    60
    Dad is no longer the singer he was, which of course makes Cat Stevens’ title track all the more poignant. .... Junior does most of the heavy vocal lifting and it is he, you suspect, who suggested Ph.D.’s I Won’t Let You Down and Eurythmics’ Here Comes The Rain Again, both of which turn out to be highlights. [Jan 2025, p.82]
  4. Classic Rock Magazine
    Dec 2, 2024
    50
    Things take a kitschy turn for the sickly sweet. [Dec 2024, p.79]