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Paul Weller
- Record Label: Polydor
- Release Date: Dec 10, 2021
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- Summary: The live recording of Paul Weller's May 2021 concert featuring songs from his long career with the BBC Symphony Orchestra includes guest appearances from Boy George, Celeste, and James Morrison.
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- Record Label: Polydor
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Dec 10, 2021While it’s not an unqualified success, ‘An Orchestrated Songbook’ is still an intriguing, at times fascinating exercise.
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UncutDec 10, 2021This is a coherent set of transformative reveries by an older, less angry man. [Jan 2022, p.31]
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Dec 10, 2021Buckley's arrangements of Weller's canny self-curation help give An Orchestrated Songbook a subtle but palpable emotional resonance that separates it from other orchestral pop reworkings, not to mention the heavy number of Weller live albums.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 10, 2021Overwhelmingly, Weller's songs are durable enough to bear their new setting. [Jan 2022, p.81]
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MojoDec 14, 2021There are moments where the charts could bear being much edgier, and the guest spots are variable. ... In the midst of it, Weller himself sails regally on, in fine-grained voice, and the songs are happily, bomb(ast)-proof. [Feb 2022, p.87]
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Jun 5, 2022
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Dec 10, 2021
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