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Feb 23, 2023The songwriting is strong, representing Selway’s best – and must sustained – burst of solo work yet. His innate musicality shines through, and there’s an endearing honesty to the lyrics that filters across the music itself.
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Feb 28, 2023While Strange Dance is a rather nocturnal album, those broad and distant lyrics, aided by the atmospheric yet intricate instrumentation, mean there are many more moods and times that it can fit.
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Mar 14, 2023Strange Dance is Selway’s third solo album and carries on where 2014’s Weatherhouse left off. The synths and electronic adornments are all in place, but here they’re augmented with strings and brass. Selway had the good taste to invite Portishead’s Adrian Utley to contribute and his involvement is pretty much guaranteed to elevate the quality of a project.
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Mar 3, 2023Strange Dance is gentle enough to constitute adventurous background listening but complex enough to reward a closer inspection, a curious combination that is not without appeal.
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Feb 24, 2023It may not make the strongest impact initially, but repeated listens reveal more in the way of deep thought and renewed optimism for tomorrow.
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UncutFeb 22, 2023A richer chamber-pop style which now reaches its zenith on Strange Dance. [Mar 2023, p.35]
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Feb 22, 2023The richness of its sounds is what makes ‘Strange Dance’ a warmly familiar, if not entirely compelling listen.
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MojoFeb 22, 2023Occasionally, the vaulting arrangements threaten to overwhelm what is a naturally lower-case singing voice, but the ambition here cannot be faulted. [Apr 2023, p.85]
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Feb 22, 2023All the pieces are there, and many fit together quite well, but the sum of the parts is not delivering what was promised.
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Feb 28, 2023The dramatic crescendos and ostensibly cathartic payoffs of “Little Things” and “The Heart of It All” suggest profundity but mostly draw attention to its absence. Strip away the bombast and these are humble little songs. Humble treatment might suit them.