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Dec 11, 2013This isn't a dogged re-creation of the past, the work of an artist concerned with painting within the lines, this is an album of celebration of groovy sounds that is pretty hard to resist.
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Jun 13, 2013It’s a dispiriting affair--a mishmash of glam rock, lad rock and heavier indie rock that fails to ignite.
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May 30, 2013It’s just that on Don’t Forget Who You Are he and his new collaborators have turned everything up to 11 in a transparently concerted effort to throw him into the spotlight, but in setting him apart from his previous work he’s lost many of the idiosyncrasies which made him interesting.
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MojoJun 17, 2013A thoroughly charming patchwork of neo-'60s rock. [Jul 2013, p.82]
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May 30, 2013At times, he runs out of ideas, but that shouldn’t detract from the fact that he is clearly going somewhere--even if that might be more often than not the past.
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Jun 3, 2013This record is a triumph of belief and dogged determination over those people who thought he was a barnacle on the coattails of his famous friend.
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Q MagazineJun 17, 2013It's a predictable sound, though there's a thrilling intensity here. [Jul 2013, p.110]
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Jun 5, 2013Don’t Forget is just possible to enjoy. But only in mod-eration, of course.
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May 30, 2013He's better when writing about his own experiences.
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May 31, 2013It's quite easy to envisage entire arenas punching the air to songs like these and the pounding “You're Gonna Get It”, one of two tracks featuring Paul Weller.
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Jun 3, 2013Its chances are boosted by Ian Broudie's bright, bold production, but, apart from one obligatory Beatlesy ballad, it's full of route-one glam-rock stompers with not a single interesting or original twist and lazy stuff-that-rhymes lyrics.
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Jun 3, 2013Too much of the material sounds formulaic, most noticeably a Strokes pastiche, Darkness in Our Hearts, and the Verve-by-numbers Out of Control.
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UncutMay 30, 2013The result is both catchy and sadly predictable. [Jul 2013, p.77]
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