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Q MagazineMay 18, 2011Simon Le Bon's croon oozes with charisma throughout and the elegant, new wave pop hooks of their heyday are revisited. [May 2011, p.126]
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MojoApr 6, 2011So much more than the original boy band. [March 2011, p. 106]
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Apr 4, 2011More vintage sound than classic album, All You Need Is Now won't revive any careers, theirs or Ronson's.
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Mar 28, 2011Leave A Light On, for example, sounds an awful lot like the Rio-era ballad Save A Prayer. Unfortunately, these doppelgangers are the album's best songs, which makes you wonder why the band bothered.
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Mar 28, 2011Producer Mark Ronson does an astounding job of taking them back to the Fab Five glory days of Rio.
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Under The RadarMar 22, 2011All You Need Is now represents a step in the right direction, and you can sense the band getting back into shape. [Feb 2011, p.70]
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Mar 22, 2011Flaunting his [Ronson's] knack for organic, melodic dance music-and clearly harnessing his own childhood nostalgia for Duran Duran's early-'80s heyday-Ronson nudges Simon LeBon and crew toward the same supple grooves and frosty hooks they once all but owned.
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Mar 22, 2011All You Need Is Now is unlikely to win over any new fans, but it might reignite or validate forgotten guilty pleasures and, for Duranies, it's an album to sit alongside its older relatives with pride.
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Mar 22, 2011Not everything is worth making the journey; indeed, it's hard to know why the band bothered adding five new songs to the superior nine-track version of "All You Need Is Now" that Duran Duran released through iTunes late last year. But with their sleek keyboard lines, trebly guitar chatter and frontman Simon Le Bon's swooping vocal melodies, taut neo-New Wave gems like "Being Followed" and "Girl Panic!" make a strong argument for the lasting utility of these hitmakers' original formula.
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Mar 22, 2011The once bold, sometimes shameless Simon Le Bon sounds a bit tentative in this post-Killers world, and when compared to the tight, original, nine-track version of the album previously made available via digital download, this final, fatter version borders on "too much of a good thing." Fortunately, the emphasis will be on "good thing" for longtime Duran fans or anyone with a taste for melodic, synth-driven pop/rock.
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Mar 18, 2011Full of tunes and pizzazz, it's unexpectedly good fun.
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Mar 18, 2011This album, Mark Ronson's "imaginary follow up to Rio that never was", is their best for 18 years.
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Mar 18, 2011Déjà vu almost overwhelms The Man Who Stole a Leopard and Leave a Light On's echoes of The Chauffeur and Save a Prayer respectively, but this is Duran sounding as good as people remember.
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UncutFeb 1, 2011There are traces of Rio's fantastic lipglossed silliness, but overall the arty party pop of All You Need IS now feels like an attempt to rescue a venerable British band long damaged by poor decisions. [Mar 2011, p.88]
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Jan 10, 2011While All You Need is Now won't bring flocks of teenagers over to Duran Duran's side, it's certainly a commendable effort if for no reason other than it's the band's most relevant and listenable record in almost two decades.
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Dec 21, 2010Duran's Mark Ronson-produced 13th disc is a return to roots for a band that's all implants - which is part of the album's charm.
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Dec 20, 2010As a group of former heartthrobs with something to prove, Duran Duran are both a product of its time and a band with its eye on the future -- and they've finally managed to capture the titular sense of Now.
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Dec 20, 2010Simon LeBon's still sturdy voice soars over coolly funky backdrops and the grooves are some of the group's most urgent in years.
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Dec 20, 2010All You Need Is Now isn't Son of Rio, but it's the best album Duran Duran has released since then, a collection that manages what their best material always has, blending art with grand gestures and popcraft.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 49 out of 54
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Mixed: 3 out of 54
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Negative: 2 out of 54
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