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Mar 11, 2022Thankfully, all of Who Cares? sounds exactly like Rex Orange County coming into his own.
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Mar 11, 2022‘Who Cares?’, O’Connor’s fourth album, is a gorgeously measured step forward.
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Mar 10, 2022Don’t expect this LP to reinvent O'Connor’s established ‘wheel’, but it certainly shows signs of a formula being gradually improved and perfected.
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Mar 10, 2022The album not only delivers O’Connor's signature use of bubbly synths, electric pianos and programmed beats that instantly make you feel good, but it also serves as a lesson on learning how to heal and move on.
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Mar 10, 2022While missing the flecks of pop brilliance and cloying hooks that made 2017 Rex so endearing, the record’s release in the genesis of a twee renaissance is near-perfect timing.
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Mar 14, 2022Taken as a whole, though, Who Cares? is so unvarying in its sentimental melodies that it begins to fade into the background, so unobtrusive that it becomes unremarkable.
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Mar 11, 2022Sweet and frothy. Probably still a little coffee shop. But not Starbucks, more the soundtrack to your local quirky independent caffeinator.
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Mar 10, 2022At his best O’Connor seems to be part of a lineage of pop craftsmen for whom melody trumps everything – you don’t need edge, experimentation or lyrical fireworks if you can come up with a tune as strong as Open the Window or as cute as Making Time. But at his worst, it sounds limp and insubstantial, compounded by the thin production (a sonic link to the days when O’Connor was uploading his bedroom-recorded songs to Soundcloud) and his voice, which can tend to the nasal and whiny.
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Positive: 35 out of 38
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Mixed: 2 out of 38
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Negative: 1 out of 38
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May 18, 2022This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.