England, Half English - Billy Bragg
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  • Summary: After recording two well-received albums of Woody Guthrie covers with Wilco, the anti-folk pioneer returns to recording original material, this time with his touring band, the Blokes.

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16
  1. Alternative Press
    90
    Feels like a jam session--bluesy keyboard lines and guitar riffs busk with soul-inflected harmonies, world-music percussion and complex, exotic rhythms. [Apr 2002, p.68]
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  2. Playlouder
    80
    As ever, he's on point, and brilliant.
  3. Q Magazine
    60
    The result is almost entirely vaudevillian. [Mar 2002, p.116]
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  4. Neumu.net
    30
    Lyrically, I suspect that part of the problem is rust, while part of the problem is age — a song about bumping into an ex-girlfriend, then coming home to tell the wife about it ("Jane Allen") just doesn't stick to the ribs, while the more overtly political numbers feel heavy-handed and preachy.

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