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Jul 18, 2017The double album structure adds texture to the record’s length, avoiding monotony. Goldie clearly still owns his sound and endows it with a unique vision on The Journey Man.
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Jun 19, 2017The record is a fluid blend of Goldie taking reflective looks back on where he’s come from and the myriad influences that have shaped him over the years, alongside a sonic perfectionist’s competitive desire to push the music world forward with his new work.
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Jun 16, 2017At 16 tracks and a whopping 110-minute runtime, there are some songs that blend into the other, but it's a testament to Goldie's creativity and flexibility as an artist that there's never a single moment on The Journey Man that sounds compromised.
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UncutJun 7, 2017Goldie strikes a neat balance between exploratory drum programming ad sleek soul. [Jul 2017, p.30]
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Jun 7, 2017This is his first proper solo LP project since ‘Saturnz Return’, and it’s brilliantly, bloody-mindedly Goldie: a slew of deep d’n’b grooves offset by beatless lounge-blues arias and glamour-soaked jazz club noodlings.
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Jun 15, 2017There's still a fair amount of skippable tracks here. Despite this, Goldie remains a hero and an inspirational figure, and even if The Journey Man doesn't quite stack up to Timeless, it's still a respectable effort, and its best moments confirm the man's legendary status.
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Jun 14, 2017What The Journey Man most clearly captures is that taste for excess and self-indulgence. It's the work of an elder statesman who still has a special touch, but who doesn't know when to stop himself.
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Q MagazineJun 7, 2017It's pulled down by too many mid-paced ballads and inordinate length. [Aug 2017, p.104]
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MojoJun 7, 2017Earth-shattering breakbeats take a backseat to slicker, smoother, jazzier efforts and broad-brush over-emoting for much of its ponderous second half. [Jul 2017, p.91]
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Jun 16, 2017There is little innovation within these sounds: there isn’t a song on here that feels like it couldn’t have come out in the past decade or so.
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Jun 15, 2017Goldie’s weakness is not always being able to corral that ambition, and, not helped by rote production, there is some interminable material here.