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  • Summary: The latest full-length release for Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band was produced by Bill Ryder-Jones.
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  • Record Label: Modern Sky
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, British Trad Rock
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  1. Mojo
    Jun 3, 2022
    100
    Luminous and alive, Dear Scott is just what Mick does: Head music, straight from the heart. [Jun 2022, p.82]
  2. Uncut
    Jun 3, 2022
    90
    Even by Head's own lofty standards, this represents a late-career masterpiece. [Jun 2022, p.29]
  3. Jun 3, 2022
    80
    Not only is it nice for long-time fans of his work, it gives those looking for someone making these kinds of desperately beautiful, painfully human songs a new artist to discover and love.
  4. 80
    Every Head album is a gem, but Dear Scott – named after a note-to-self by F Scott Fitzgerald, down on his luck – has a particularly deep internal lustre.
  5. 40
    Shackled by its own turgid competency, Dear Scott fizzes with all the life of a demo tape recorded in a local community hall double-booked with a bingo night. No matter how loud you turn up the volume, it still sounds quiet. It sounds uncomfortably naked, too.
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