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Sep 21, 2017The album never comes off as a slavish museum piece. It feels instead as if they somehow rediscovered this sound, like an old coat picked out of the attic that looks as perfect with a modern ensemble as it did in its own heyday.
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Aug 31, 2017The most impressive item here is the deep-soul duet with Miley’s sister Noah Cyrus, “Waiting”, in which Bugg’s aching delivery is perfectly tempered by her fragile sweetness, like vocal salted caramel.
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UncutAug 31, 2017After "Waiting," a disarmingly soulful duet with Noah Cyrus, the LP gets darker and more resonant. [Oct 2017, p.24]
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Sep 5, 2017Though the faster songs are largely throwaway, Bugg is inching closer to a sound that is both familiar and very much his own.
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Aug 31, 2017Although he has, mercifully, put hip-hop to one side, this lacks the authenticity of a real raconteur.
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MojoAug 31, 2017The sumptuous How Soon The Dawn and gently rcok'n'rolling I Can Burn shine. [Oct 2017, p.98]
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Q MagazineAug 31, 2017This one has it's moments, but somehow never quite catches fire. [Oct 2017, p.106]
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Aug 31, 2017It’s hard to see where Bugg goes from here: he’s either a man still in search of a niche or, more worryingly, locked into the wrong one.
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Sep 1, 2017All in all, the album is unremarkable, showing only rare flashes of lyrical prowess, and melodically unadventurous. Bugg fails to push boundaries and flounders outside his recent comfort zone, resulting in a record that fails to impress, delivered without vigour.
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Positive: 22 out of 27
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Mixed: 3 out of 27
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Negative: 2 out of 27
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