Alive To Every Smile - Trembling Blue Stars
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73 out of 100

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  • Summary: The fourth album from Bob Wratten under the Trembling Blue Stars name features yet another new lineup (although Annemari Davies does return for a couple of tracks).

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
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  1. Magnet
    80
    Wratten makes the kind of albums most of us would record if the defection of a muse and lover still haunted us years later--and if we could write unabashedly pretty songs. [#52, p.109]
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  2. Alternative Press
    80
    Wratten's finest post-Field Mice LP. [Dec 2001, p.98]
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  3. L.A. Weekly
    80
    If Alive to Every Smile doesn’t indicate Wratten is ready to move on thematically, it does show him evolving musically.
  4. All Music Guide
    60
    No matter the players, Alive to Every Smile is so patently a Bob Wratten album that, honestly, it sounds a little tired.

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  1. Sharon
    10
    One of my favourite albums ever. Because of Alive To Every Smile, i have bought practically everything ever recorded by Bob Wratten. Excellent!!
  2. FrankB
    10
    Brilliant. Sorrowful. Genius. Crushing. If Annemari Davies and Robert Wratten got back together for for more album, the world would be a better place.… Expand

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