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Apr 14, 2014It takes real nerve to pull something like this off, but Nutini's swagger is easily matched by the quality of the material and his inspired performance.
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UncutApr 10, 2014He's let down by the lyrics, which seem, to have been assembled from a collection of fridge magnet soul cliches. [May 2014, p.78]
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MojoApr 23, 2014Nutini has grown up, and his music has grown with him: in a world littered with handsome young singer-songwriters who become obsolete some time between their first hit and first album, it's an admirable achievement. [May 2014, p.88]
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Q MagazineApr 23, 2014Caustic Love is a truly excellent modern soul record. [May 2014, p.114]
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Apr 10, 2014Caustic Love is the sound of Nutini finally finding his groove and producing a record that lives up to his talent.
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Apr 10, 2014The 27-year-old and his whisky-soaked words writhe their way around a multitude of Motown-inflected could-be singles, paying homage to Prince, Marvin Gaye, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Beach Boys and D'Angelo along the way.
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Apr 10, 2014Nutini reins in the melodrama, and Caustic Love is testament to that restraint.
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Apr 14, 2014The 27-year-old Scot had taken five years to unleash this third album, an ambitious stab at morphing into a mature soul man. And it's worked.
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Apr 11, 2014Caustic Love may be the best UK R&B album since the 1970s blue-eyed-soul heyday of Rod Stewart and Joe Cocker.
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Apr 18, 2014While Caustic Love is clearly the work of a maturing singer-songwriter (shedding jaunty charm for depth and ambition), it finds the 27-year-old still skittering around in search of an artistic identity.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 43 out of 48
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Mixed: 0 out of 48
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Negative: 5 out of 48
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