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Here Come The Tears sounds like the best album that Suede never made, full of romantic, smouldering pop songs with a soaring depth to them.
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Here Come the Tears is what Coming Up would have been if Butler had stuck around: it's cinematic and bright, lush and passionate, halfway between the incessantly catchy pop that wound up on Coming Up and the sighing romanticism and larger-than-life sweep of Dog Man Star.
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FilterThe duo has not lost their touch for writing memorable tunes. [#16, p.92]
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It is raw, emotionally stirring, and the best album you’ll hear this year, by a mile.
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This is a compelling debut/reunion, with the two men seeming to push each other far more than any of their recent collaborators have.
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Under The RadarIt is everything one would have expected Suede to become after over a decade. [#10, p.114]
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It’s obvious that Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler have not lost a bit of the touch that made them famous in the early 1990s.
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SpinIf this reunion... isn't a revelation, it still has its thrills. [Aug 2005, p.103]
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As a whole, 'Here Come The Tears' is a welcome collection of songs, even if the sentiment of it all does become a little saccharine-queasy after a while.
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Despite the handful of duff tracks and a couple of absolute howlers, 'Here Come The Tears' is a fine album - certainly not the best they've made together, nor even apart, but accomplished, ambitious and often highly impressive.
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This isn't that far from the records Suede made without their errant guitarist. However, Anderson's familiar Bowie affectations sound all the more affecting with Butler chiming away.
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There's nothing as great as "New Generation", "She's Not Dead", or "The 2 of Us" but there doesn't have to be, either, because the Tears have enough natural dynamism of their own to stand alone.
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MojoThey have clearly been rejuvenated by this beguiling collaboration, producing their best work for years. [Jul 2005, p.110]
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Here Come the Tears fits nicely in Anderson and Butler's catalogs and certainly beats anything they've done in the last five years, but it makes matters clear that all they'll ever do is release clones of what they once were.
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UncutIt's not a disaster, by any means.... It's just that, over 13 songs, it's abundantly clear that whatever the potency of this partnership, there's an old lack of range. [Jul 2005, p.89]
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Disappointingly, there's little here to startle the natives.
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Q MagazineButler's attempts at the old guitar dramatics are hopelessly overwrought. [Jul 2005, p.115]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 63 out of 75
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Mixed: 1 out of 75
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Negative: 11 out of 75
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TacoFeb 19, 2007Essential.
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LindaJul 8, 2006
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[Anonymous]Jan 15, 2006Awesome!