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Sep 11, 2013For all the piecemeal recording, technological obsession and sheer ambition on the Fuse, Urban manages to fashion it all into a (mostly) working whole and maintain his identity as a contemporary country artist, even as he reaches for the mainstream pop fences.
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Sep 16, 2013Keith promised that Fuse would change things up, and he delivered.
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Entertainment WeeklySep 11, 2013The result is sonically exploratory (if overproduced), but Urban's breezy, flirty lyrics are so dreadfully derivative that they undo his attempt at diversity. [13 Sep 2013, p.71]
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Oct 25, 2013Fuse sounds basically like all of the past few albums but with less guitar fireworks, more drum machines, more “oh oh oh” backing vocals, slightly more generic choruses and verses, and less moments where I’m surprised by something within the song.
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Sep 11, 2013For all the up-to-the-minute production talent--including Stargate and Mike Elizondo--this often sounds like an Eighties record, all big, clipped drums and guitar-face soloing.... Still, the best tracks are the most country.
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Sep 11, 2013The words are working hard here, and the music is, too, but Mr. Urban is gliding through, barely quaking at all.
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Positive: 28 out of 36
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Mixed: 3 out of 36
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Negative: 5 out of 36
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