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- Summary: Paul McCartney's first solo studio release in over five years features a guest appearance by fellow Beatle Ringo Starr.
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- Record Label: Capitol
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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May 22, 2026The Boys of Dungeon Lane is certainly as good as anything he has given us in the last 50 years.
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May 22, 2026“As You Lie There” is the first song on The Boys of Dungeon Lane, McCartney’s first studio album in six years, and it sets the tone for this warm, nostalgic late-career masterpiece.
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May 29, 2026McCartney's gift for hummable pop songcraft endures and more than one of these songs is likely to pop into your head days after listening. Yet, it's all those little moments on The Boys of Dungeon Lane and the way McCartney brings his past to life that makes the album one of his most affecting.
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May 22, 2026The Boys Of Dungeon Lane does everything a Paul McCartney album should do. The vulnerability in his voice adds a peculiar charm: it’s a man looking at an ever-decreasing road ahead with his trademark optimism.
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May 26, 2026As is usual with contemporary McCartney, there are a couple of songs that don’t quite click – the rocking Come Inside, the unremarkable First Star of the Night – but The Boys of Dungeon Lane seems noticeably more purposeful than a lot of his 21st-century output.
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Jun 3, 2026The Boys of Dungeon Lane is a perfectly professional album, a beautifully realized drip feed of nostalgia with no sharp edges or harmful aftereffects.
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May 29, 2026His newest memory work, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, promises listeners “the story before the story”, but ends up excavating old tricks and administering pop palliatives.