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May 22, 2026The melodic gift and residual optimism ultimately carry the day aided by the canny ear for a guitar riff that characterised Wings. [Jul 2026, p.82]
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May 26, 2026By the time you get to the lushly orchestrated ballad Momma Gets By which closes the album, you’ll want to go straight back to the start to experience it again.
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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 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 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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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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UncutMay 22, 2026Some songs, like "Ripples In A Pond" (A pop song for his wife Nancy), hit with the contemporary Andrew Wyatt wallop, which is very much why musicians in their ninth decades so revere his production; but as ever, it's the bits where McCartnet lets appearances be damned that work out best. [Jul 2026, p.24]
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May 22, 2026This might be McCartney’s best album of the 21st century. .... There’s a deeply observational quality to his songwriting, especially evident in the most nostalgic numbers here, that makes his eternal cheer feel well earned.