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- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Apr 4, 2025
- Summary: The debut full-length release from the collaboration between Elton John and Brandi Carlile features contributions from Josh Klinghoffer, Pino Palladino, Chad Smith, Bernie Taupin, and Andrew Watt.
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- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Apr 4, 2025This is a set of absolute bangers including a barrel-house Crocodile Rock romp through Little Richard’s Bible, the twisty Americana-flavoured fantasia of Riverman and a moving Elton solo finale on When This Old World Is Done Me. On such evidence, we’re not done with him yet, nor he with us.
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Record CollectorApr 2, 2025An album that's found the singer engaged again, hungry to work and with a keen eye on quality control, given a creative kickstart by a younger talent whose reverence is tangible but never submissive. [Apr 2025, p.98]
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Apr 2, 2025A career highlight for Carlile and a rejuvenation for John. [Apr 2025, p.79]
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Apr 4, 2025The album's direct confrontation with ageing and death serves to intensify these artists' joyful, companionable celebration of life. Outsized, old-school, dad-rockin' fun.
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Apr 8, 2025Neither John nor Carlile overshadow the other – when one’s on lead, the other is always ready to back up with some harmonies. They really do work extraordinarily well together. As you would expect, the sound is very much middle of the road. .... It also means there’s a warm familiarity to many of the songs.
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Oct 1, 2025With swinging jams like “Little Richard’s Bible” and theatrical pop belters like the title track, the duo reach high and confidently grab hold of their target stars.
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UncutApr 2, 2025Often have a touch of the Broadway musical to them, but some are great. .... But it's only on "When This Old World Is Done With ME", a hymnal elegy where a weary-sounding Elton accompanies himself on piano, that we get a glimpse of genuine emotion. [Apr 2025, p.32]