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- Summary: The two-disc compilation of solo work comes from the former lead singer of the new wave group Japan.
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- Record Label: EMI
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Art Rock, Experimental Ambient
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Mar 6, 2012This compilation may primarily be valuable for illustrating the full length and breadth of Sylvian's musical progression.
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Mar 6, 2012A Victim of Stars doesn't offer much to anyone already immersed in that world. For everyone else this is an engaging scratch at the surface of a wide-open mind.
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Mar 6, 2012Yes, it's a ridiculous, sometimes patchy affair, but that feels entirely apposite.
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Mar 6, 2012Musically, too, he became far more adventurous than both Roxy Music and the New Romantic legions who echoed the original glam-rock innovations, his work paralleling that of questing artists like Scott Walker and Talk Talk.
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Mar 22, 2012As a portrait of a great artist who has never stopped progressing and carving a niche that is equal parts challenging, enjoyable and moving, it does a brilliant job.
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Jun 5, 2012Throughout, Sylvian's songs retain their peculiar emotional coloration, of tension bubbling just under the surface.
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Q MagazineMar 13, 2012A Victim Of Stars is the ideal primer to an almost three-decade solo career, with the bait of one impeccable new track. [Mar 2012, p.117]
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