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UncutMay 31, 2012These cuts are glorious on their own merits. [Jun 2012, p.92]
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Apr 6, 2012Free Again: The 1970 Sessions shows Chilton working in top form in a wide variety of genres; it's as good as anything Chilton recorded-including his Big Star albums.
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Mar 28, 2012Sure, it's messy, but Alex Chilton always was--it's also some of his richest and best music, and it's never sounded better than it does on Free Again: The 1970 Sessions.
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Mar 28, 2012These sessions are a timely reminder of the musician and the man Chilton wanted to become: the musician who would provide us a sense of magic through a lifetime of perseverance.
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Mar 28, 2012it's more like an endpoint for devoted fans looking to connect the dots. As such, it provides a fascinating coming-of-age story of an artist who came into his own playing styles he knew he loved and others he only thought he hated.
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Mar 28, 2012Despite it's somewhat all-over-the-place vibe, Free Again is a terrific document of Chilton, free again after The Box Tops and on the road to bigger and better.
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Mar 28, 2012Free Again finds Chilton, not yet 20, in fast bloom.
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Mar 28, 2012The tracks are re-released here, along with some extras, and mostly betray a songwriter still finding his own voice.
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Mar 28, 2012Big Star was more than the sum of its parts, and as evidenced here, Chilton was only just beginning to mine his.