- Band Name: Johnny Flynn
- Record Label: Transgressive
- Release Date: Sep 30, 2013
- Summary: After a two-year acting stint at The Globe and in the West End, the British singer/actor returns with a self-produced album of Americana.
- Record Label: Transgressive
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk, British Folk
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 9
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Mixed: 6 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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Sep 30, 201380There’s less barn-floor stomp than on previous albums, but Country Mile is still rousing, with trumpet, fiddle and much--occasionally dicey--harmonising.
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Sep 27, 201370Flynn remains one of the country’s most overlooked songwriters and Country Mile is a good reminder of his skill with a well-crafted song.
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Sep 27, 201370Country Mile is a fine album, testament to the smartly ornate take on English folk old and new as one and the same, but given Flynn’s own catalogue and his undoubted abilities it hasn’t progressed as far as it could have done.
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Sep 27, 201360Despite the harvest festival charm that carries the record, its heart is here, at its starkest, most honest moments.
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Oct 10, 201360The reggae-tinged "Fol-de-rol" is a definite low, but elsewhere this is a competent, if unsurprising, effort. [Nov 2013, p.71]
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Sep 27, 201360Flynn and band are happy to be a little old-fashioned, but it can be fun to join them.
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Oct 11, 201340An album that should have seen Flynn take a step closer to Messrs Marling and Mumford has, sadly, been moulded into a bit of a snoozefest. [Nov 2013, p.102]