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For 2,550 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Doctrine Of Love
Lowest review score: 20 Relaxer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,695 out of 2550
  2. Mixed: 849 out of 2550
  3. Negative: 6 out of 2550
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King of a Land
    This is not an overly confessional collection: if you’re looking for self-revelation, you may have to wait for a forthcoming autobiography, but nevertheless there’s much to enjoy.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Council Skies
    This is exactly the album Gallagher should be making to remind people how good he can be.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Version Girl
    The voice charms at every turn, brimming with personality on what might just be the party album of the year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Love Invention
    Those who fondly remember Goldfrapp’s early noughties primal glitterball electro-pop peak will thrill at Alison Goldfrapp’s debut solo effort.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    High Flyin'
    Here he’s just one of the gang, trading songs and in-jokes with singer-songwriter Jeff Blackburn, Moby Grape bassist Bob Mosley and drummer Johnny Craviotto, his wiry lead guitar slicing through the good-ole-boys’ country-rock.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Somewhere Under the Rainbow 1973
    A 12-minute version of the album’s title track is more séance than song. ... Elsewhere, the audience’s enthusiastic response to the first few bars of Helpless is rewarded with a despairing deconstruction of the CSNY favourite, Nils Lofgren’s funereal accordion aiding the communal catharsis taking place onstage.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Keep Your Courage
    It’s typical of Merchant’s trademark lyrical articulacy, her passion and poetic vocabulary illustrating how she remains powerfully evocative writer over a 40-year career peppered with high watermarks.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stereo Mind Game
    The result is an album of scope and dynamism, sometimes hushed but tooled for outreach on the urgent Dandelion and baleful Neptune, where a choir lifts Tonra’s sunken vocal.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sundown
    There’s a new sense of confidence in the vocals, the clarity of the melodies, and production flourishes. Lyrically, too, there’s a shift – the troubled soul-searching has (mostly) given way to a sense of joy and acceptance at his place in the world. There are songs here that do not so much start as saunter into earshot, in no rush to reveal themselves and all the more seductive for it.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    False Lankum
    At 70 minutes, False Lankum is definitely a demanding listen, but an extraordinary one.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Memento Mori
    Not everything works. The aforementioned Always You leaves little impression and the clunky Caroline’s Monkey, which shoehorns in every hackneyed junkie reference you can think of (“holes in her skin”, “ice in her veins”, monkeys on backs, etc, etc), is just about rescued from oblivion thanks, again, to its auditory nod to Kraftwerk’s locomotive-fixated sixth studio album. But otherwise, Memento Mori is brimming and sometimes soaring with immediate pop songs.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Moving On Skiffle
    Van Morrison’s voice is in fine a form as ever. The important thing is that while he – and the rest of the crew – head down a well-travelled road, they certainly don’t sit in the middle of it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brothers & Sisters
    Brothers & Sisters may also be the last recorded work of Mason’s friend and recurrent collaborator Martin Duffy – a fine way for him to finish, on an album full of intelligence and love.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cuts & Bruises
    Inhaler avoid difficult second album problems by sounding more like they’re on a confident fourth record.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bless This Mess
    If it is a mess, it’s a glorious one.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Optical Delusion
    It’s an album of unlikely collaborations. Day One features the operatic talents of Dina Ipavic, while Are You Alive, sung by Lily Wolter of Penelope Isles, floats into moodier, more analog territory. Best of all are The New Abnormal (Golden Girls’ Kinetic turned inside out) and the anti-gammon state of the nation rant of Dirty Rats.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cracker Island
    End-times prophecies have always been a part of Gorillaz’s world view, but here Damon Albarn’s lyrics allude to personal burnout. There’s something poignant about hearing Stevie Nicks’ weathered voice twin itself to Albarn’s while singing about reaching a place “when you can’t help yourself anymore and the madness come”.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17: Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions 1996-1997
    Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) serves the showman well, making this era sing, one of The Bootleg Series’ most intriguing investigations so far into Bob Dylan’s working practices and mindset.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heavy Heavy
    Their unpredictability and magnetic power remain undimmed by the years.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Live and Dangerous [Super Deluxe Edition]
    That Bad Reputation deep cut – as well as five better-known extras including a spine-tingling Still In Love With You not heard before – reminds us we are in what was, for so long, uncharted territory. ... Live and definitive!
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mercy
    Cale remains the star of the show, however, still crafting richly textured songs that don’t always go where you might expect them to, and refusing to pander to expectations.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Turn the Car Around
    This is a thoughtful, and thought-provoking, set of songs from a writer whose responses to the world around him illustrate an ever-deepening maturity, which is intriguing to chart across his four solo releases to date.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cacti
    Cacti might show Maries in survival mode, but revealing vulnerability has seen her songwriting soften and come into its own.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Every Loser
    Whether you prefer him pensive or primal, his 20th solo album brings that big time.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Space Force
    The scattergun concept inevitably results in a broad range of styles and not all of them are entirely successful. ... Still, the above are minor quibbles, as the bulk of the album is a gorgeous concoction of disparate inspirations finding hitherto elusive homes. The guests get their works in progress nailed by an esteemed craftsman, while Rundgren himself, a man with a partial history of self-sufficiency bordering on the behaviour of a control freak, sounds reinvigorated by allowing others into his world.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Live at the L.A. Forum, April 26, 1969
    A take on the Star-Spangled Banner provides a waymarker here, but its playful cadence offers little warning of the unholy commotion to come.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sail On Sailor [Super Deluxe Edition]
    A cappella mixes of studio material have been a hallmark of every major Beach Boys box set, and those on Sail On Sailor deliver as expected. ... Further studio outtakes underscore the group’s range and versatility.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow is a rich, nuanced and brilliant reflection of a world in turmoil.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Divine Symmetry: The Journey to Hunky Dory [Box Set]
    Those lyrics [from previously unreleased demo, Tired Of My Life], slightly tweaked, would also make the final It’s No Game; that they date to this period of self-doubt and self-discovery and ended up bookending one of the greatest decade-long streaks in music is revelatory. Demos of Hunky Dory standouts have fewer surprises: written during a spate of fevered creativity in Haddon Hall, his boho Beckenham pile, everything is all but there, a few lyrical improvements aside.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    YTILAER
    While it’s certainly not as upbeat as 2020’s Gold Record, the directness cuts through in a way that 2019’s Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest didn’t. It’s an album that finds Callahan in great form.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All the Kids Are Super Bummed Out
    The kids aren’t alright as decades get mashed; conspiracy theories and misanthropy, leavened with wit, abound. A fantastic record. You auteur hear this.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Where I'm Meant to Be
    It’s hands down the band’s most powerful and compelling musical statement to date; a vivid snapshot of an important inflection point in their career trajectory.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Car
    The Car is a slick mover, immaculately appointed and often beautiful. What it’s driving at, though, can feel naggingly elusive.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sorrows Away
    Sorrows Away is a landmark album by an extraordinary band, full of brutal truths, hope, and moments of musical transcendence that will resonate for generations to come.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shufflemania
    From heavy skiffle to serpent gods to ponderings on Pacino, noir and mortality, this charms and challenges.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stumpwork
    Stumpwork demonstrates that the Dry Cleaning business is going from strength to strength.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here Is Everything
    After a handful of stirring ballads set to create further communal festival experiences, Here Is Everything peaks with Magic, golden funk worthy of Odelay-era Beck. The album cover depicts singer Jules Jackson during her pregnancy: her band have given birth to something magical here.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    N.K. Pop
    Heaton remains the go-to chronicler of the Everyman condition, but let’s not underplay Abbott’s vital contribution as both equal-billing foil and relatable conduit of female perspectives in these songs. Plays not just for today, but for weeks, months and years to come.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Autofiction
    An album that taps into Suede’s galvanic guitar-rock drama without falling prey to that dread declaration of stagnation, the back-to-basics album. Perhaps deceptively, Suede’s approach here is forward-thinking.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How Do You Burn?
    How Do You Burn? finds the Whigs in particularly lusty form.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Words & Music, May 1965
    The contents, which comprise the first volume of the Lou Reed Archival Series, are of enormous cultural significance – fascinating, extraordinary, at times revelatory.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mascara Streakz
    After a 39-year hiatus, Altered Images pick up more or less where they left off with Mascara Streakz, a perfectly retro-fitted album, with enough of the modern added to retain interest.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lifetime Achievement
    First single Town And Country is a band-backed hymn to city-loving Wainwright’s current lifestyle that adds a touch of rock’n’roll pizzazz to proceedings.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heartmind
    It is a warm and free record, benefitting from the improvised jam sessions that took place on both US coasts in Brooklyn and Burbank. You can feel the sense of openness at either end of Heartmind’s musical spectrum.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reset
    Reset takes shape as a tribute to the consolatory powers of music and companionship, brimming with convivial charm and inner-voyage invention.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sound of the Morning
    Sound Of The Morning displays an irrepressible knack for songwriting. There’s a nimbleness, too. ... A real treat.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Entering Heaven Alive
    It adds up to White’s most relatable – and accessible – record in some time.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Other Side of Make-Believe
    Daniel Kessler’s guitar lines remain inventively distinctive, but a gentleness now exudes from Paul Banks’ voice, and his pseudo-absurdist lyrics consider that things might not be so bad after all.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Versions of Modern Performance
    A layered, atmospheric, darkly playful headrush of a first offering.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Closure/Continuation
    The result perhaps misses the conceptual cogency of earlier Tree peaks. But it doesn’t want for controlled reach. Over a tight 48 minutes, C/C weds a reinvigorated affirmation of band identity to expansive energies, all to confident effect: “The sum of all, of new and old,” as Wilson’s lyrics put it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Light for Attracting Attention
    Far more than an indulgent side project, A Light For Attracting Attention deserves to be taken on its own merits as a daring, invigorating and often very moving piece of work in its own right.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 [Live]
    The hardcore will need these and it’s hard to argue with the performances and the sound quality. Both shows find Young introducing new material from Harvest, released later that year, and beyond.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Belong There
    With themes of adult responsibility and parenthood bearing heavily on his mind, it might sound solemn in places, but it’s a hugely rewarding listen, a baroque-folk companion to the gorgeous undulating mysteries of Rock Bottom.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    WE
    If Everything Now’s readings of media-age malaise leant towards the grindingly obvious, WE is a partial improvement, give or take singer Win Butler’s occasional clunking takes on modern-life exhaustion.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Raw Data Feel
    In attempting to circumvent the human mind, Everything Everything have found their heart, and made their finest album yet.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Radiate Like This
    An unmitigated joy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Bit of Previous
    Previous looks to companionship and melody as bulwarks, from Talk To Me Talk To Me’s “ecstasy of company” to Come On Home’s buoyant spritz and A World Without You’s show of constancy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    (Watch My Moves)
    On (watch my moves), sticking to what he knows is all the fuel Vile needs for lift-off.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skinty Fia
    Skinty Fia is another triumph for this era’s most vital group.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wet Leg
    Wet Leg’s debut album is simultaneously of its time, ahead of its time, and evokes past times.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two Ribbons
    Pop music at its very brightest.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Earthling
    Earthling gives an uplifting sense of the creative energy shared between Eddie Vedder and his keenly empathetic collaborators, distilled into striking, memorable songs, and unified by a fresh, cohesive sound. On this evidence, it’s to be hoped the partnership forges ahead as the day jobs allow.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Dream
    They build their own world. Eventually you grasp its shrewdly filtered emotion and want to live there, too.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forever on My Mind
    It finds House on spine-chilling form with clear vocals and stunning slide guitar on tracks such as Pony Blues, Preachin’ Blues and Death Letter. The re-mastering, courtesy of The Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, is also superb.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fever Dreams, Pts. 1-4
    Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 is some great reward for the Marr faithful, a hope-fuelled 16-song set mounted on a generous, expansive balance of scope and detail.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Tipping Point
    It’s an album blazing with a refulgent light that illuminates the darkness. Ultimately, it’s a cathartic celebration of life co-created by someone who’s survived a traumatic experience. More importantly, it shows how heartbreak, suffering and tragedy can be refashioned into transcendent art.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eddie Piller Presents British Mod Sounds of the 1960s [Box Set]
    [Eddie Piller] doesn’t sequence chronologically; his approach is more scattershot, with the emphasis on listening experience rather than presenting a history lesson. But 60s mod in all its rainbow colours is represented.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Once Twice Melody
    As well as drawing more liberally from the likes of My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins, this time they’ve woven into the mix some 80s synth-pop motifs (Masquerade could be Duran Duran circa 1982), but the overall effect remains as bewitching as ever.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Overload
    The Overload is quite the debut.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Things Are Great
    Between the weather-worn blues reflections of Hard Times and the euphoric lift of closer Coalinga, the sense emerges of a band rediscovering their footing, a little saddle-sore but riding tall once more.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Boy Named If
    Sublimely crafted, incredibly well-played, there are all the reference points, yet it never sounds like a composite of old glories. The intelligence, urgency and immediacy of his 32nd album are a most welcome surprise.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Covers
    Stylistically, Marshall’s “less is more” minimalism ensures Covers sounds remarkably cohesive, making it, as ever, a totally immersive listen.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984/Ghana Music Power House
    From its bossa nova kick to its slabs of heavy organ, Kofi Psych sounds like an attempt to conjure The Doors’ Break On Through (To The Other Side) from a half-remembered conversation, while Say The Truth bears unlikely fruit from its cross-pollination of highlife rhythms, celestial early prog and The Strawberry Alarm Clock. Sadly, Essilfie-Bondzie died as this compilation was in the works but, as this set often shows, his legacy is assured.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Raise The Roof
    Maybe after the stresses and strains of the past couple of years we need a familiar embrace to soothe away our pain. Raise The Roof fits the bill, even if it might win fewer prizes for originality than its predecessor.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Imposter
    An album of adroitly chosen covers and something more. Poke around in its shadows and the songs often investigate the idea of putting on a front as a kind of catharsis, their ravaged depths trawled for high drama.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 2: The Reprise Years 1968-1971 [Box Set]
    Her artistry had never been so robust. As the earlier, more mournful In Concert version of Carey shows, Mitchell would dig deep in the studio to find a euphoric vocal that causes the song to soar. ... For Mitchell at this stage, then, nothing was ever truly a failure, but more an opportunity to take her art to new heights.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's None of Your Business
    Founder guitarist Pye Hastings and long-serving multi-instrumentalist Geoff Richardson lead a new line-up through 10 tracks that tick many boxes without threatening the iconic status of 70s classics such as In The Land Of Grey And Pink.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) [Box Set]
    While the Toy highlight Shadow Man introduces “… a man back a-ways/Who believes at where he is”, at this stage of his career, David Bowie could reflect on where he’d been with pride – including, as Brilliant Adventures shows, another decade of committing to himself.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    American Dreamer [Box Set]
    It’s one of those evocative retrospectives whose true worth exceeds monetary value. ... American Dreamer spotlights an uncompromising visionary who created music on her own terms and paved the way for Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and Tori Amos and many more of today’s female singer-songwriters.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Don't Live Here Anymore
    It reveals The War On Drugs at their most song-conscious and streamlined. The epic, immersive, unfurling tracks that have become a Granduciel trademark are notably absent (Granduciel says he abandoned a 32-minute jam track). Psychedelic flourishes are few and far between. Many tracks boast a hitherto unheard immediacy: prominent synths, unabashed choruses, and big-sounding songs.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Protest Songs 1924-2012
    The Specials, once more, fashioning a compelling soundtrack to troubled times past and present.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lindsey Buckingham
    Buckingham has crafted a solid rather than seismic affair.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For Free
    Crosby’s voice takes you flying back down the decades yet without ever longing for past glories.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultra Vivid Lament
    Their 14th album rakes over the wreckage and emerges as a generous, deeply humane mission statement: it’s an album of profound melancholy, of course, but also one lit up with heroic, big-pop colour. Ultra-vivid indeed.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Consequences
    Songs such as the joyous To Be Loved (classic couplet, “Each day feels like a weekend when you’re around”) shows that, in her eighth decade, Joan Armatrading CBE is far from resting on past achievements.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Get on Board the Soul Train: The Sound of Philadelphia International Records, Vol. 1 [Box Set]
    A fine testament to one of soul’s major labels, and a must-have.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Busy Guy
    Despite the general autumnal mood, the easy-going charm of Oval is worlds away from Almond’s rumbling menace. It’s all compelling enough to keep drawing listeners back for the next 14 years. Magnificent.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Apple Drop
    The rockier songs have a vague whiff of Faith No More’s deepest cuts, or even the lurching noir-rock of Tomahawk. ... On the poppier moments he flaunts his range more confidently than ever. There’s a lot to take in. ... Few bands remain so interesting for so long. The adventure continues.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Animal
    Between its playful, retro-electro settings and the murky presentiments of Marling’s allusive lyrics, Animal paints outside the lines of LUMP’s debut carefully, never suffocating the intuitive strangeness at its heart.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Downhill from Everywhere
    As ever, Browne leavens his harder-edged songs with gentler fare. The Caribbean-flavoured, Haiti-inspired Love Is Love has a distinct hint of Paul Simon to it, while My Cleveland Heart attempts to build a whole song around the premise of being given an artificial ticker.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No Gods No Masters
    Anger suits Garbage’s most recognisable mode, often on forceful display here: dense, layered noise, all buzzsaw guitars, harsh electronics and industrial clatter. Yet there’s sonic variety.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dreamers Are Waiting
    Finn senior’s prescient lyrics, sugarcoated with melody for ease of delivery, help make Dreamers Are Waiting both tart and timeless.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    77-81 [Box Set]
    Their political agenda from this distance is not quaint, it remains entirely relevant.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Blue Elephant
    Blue Elephant is like a soundtrack to a classic ITC TV programme, with lots of jumping into sleek jaguars and speeding along Chelsea Embankment. If that ticks your boxes, this is one of the best albums you’ll hear all year.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Translation
    The poignant This Nearly Was Mine from South Pacific (“now, I’m alone, still dreaming of paradise”) and I Who Have Nothing, are both imbued with equal measures of yearning and malice. It’s almost as if In Translation has tied up all the strange, raw emotions of the past year and made some sense of them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Width of a Circle
    The signs were all there, even though Bowie briefly ignored them as he recorded the landmark Hunky Dory. But as The Width Of A Circle shows, everything he’d put in place would soon come around.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sabotage [Super Deluxe Edition] [Box Set]
    Sabbath leant towards greater sophistication without losing their elemental bent. The super deluxe treatment introduces plenty of live material from the same year’s North American tour.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Weekend
    Blue Weekend isn’t a perfect record, with the folky No Hard Feelings and Safe From Heartbreak (If You’ve Never Been In Love) a little whimsical next to everything else going on. It matters little, though. Rowsell’s rallying cry in Smile that “I ain’t afraid of the fact that I’m sensitive” is borne out in a wild and tender third album.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Source
    Overall, Source is a thing of wondrous beauty, revealing that the hyperbole accompanying Garcia patently isn't out of proportion to her talent. [Sep 2020, p.101]
    • Record Collector
      • Posted Jun 18, 2021
    • 95 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Déjà Vu [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
    (The CSNY versions of Young’s Sea Of Madness and Everybody’s Alone would’ve been nice for starters), but there’s still a huge amount here for fans. The demos include some absolute stunners: Young and Nash’s wonderfully languid take on the former’s Birds; a delicate and heady solo version of Crosby’s Laughing; and Nash’s reflective solo rendition of Sleep Song. The outtakes, meanwhile, reveal just how much control Stills took in the studio, with enough material here for a fine standalone solo album of gutsy, soul-steeped jams.
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