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86

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  • Summary: This is the first full-length solo studio release of original songs since 2018's Nature from Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly.
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  • Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
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  1. Uncut
    Dec 3, 2024
    90
    He’s a figure of Springstonian heft in his native Australia. Fever Longing Still, his first album of new material this decade, further demonstrates that the rest of the world’s obdurate indifference is entirely its own loss. [Dec 2024, p.36]
  2. Dec 3, 2024
    80
    An old-school band doing old-school variety with old-school energy. It worked then; it works now.
  3. Dec 3, 2024
    80
    While Fever Longing Still recalls Paul Kelly’s most accessible work—all the way back to 1986’s Gossip—he hardly repeats himself.
  4. Record Collector
    Dec 3, 2024
    80
    Highlights abound, but it's hard to beat the sorrowful strains of Double Business Bound and its swirl of piano and steel guitar, or the overhauled Tom Petty jangle of Taught By Experts. [Christmas 2024, p.133]
  5. Mojo
    Dec 3, 2024
    80
    The stylistic shifts and sheer quality of the songwriting make Fever Longing Still almost the perfect Paul Kelly album. [Dec 2024, p.93]
  6. Dec 3, 2024
    80
    Fever Longing Still leaves no doubt that he hasn't lost his touch, and it's a treat for anyone who has ever loved his work -- or even for folks who've never heard him before.