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- Summary: Produced by Nick Franglen of Lemon Jelly, 'Hobo Sapiens' finds the 61-year-old Cale still willing to explore new musical territory. Note that none of the 12 songs here were on the "5 Tracks" EP released earlier in 2003.
- Record Label: EMI / Or Music
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 16
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Mixed: 0 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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UncutIt is music whose scope, erudition and vitriol makes everything else in this year of exceptional musical timidity seem puny. [Nov 2003, p.106]
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Entertainment WeeklyAn audacious marriage of restless experimentalism and eloquent melodic craft. [10 Sep 2004, p.165]
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This is the Welsh iconoclast at his most elegant, energetic, and innovative.
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There's an unwavering confidence and muscular focus behind the music that holds from start to finish.
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HoboSapiens is still dense and difficult for much of its running time, but the challenge comes from following the author through his many compositional twists rather than sitting through passages that drone on far too long.
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Rolling StoneA luxuriant union of black-ice electronics and chamber-pop instrumentation. [14 Oct 2004, p.98]
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About half of it works reasonably well, though the end result is somehow closer to Low-era Bowie or Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain than anything truly contemporary or avant-garde.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 7
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Mixed: 0 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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MichaelMMar 1, 2004
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JohnKDec 29, 2003
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Feb 3, 2013
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GEORGEDJun 1, 2004Good as always
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danielrSep 12, 2004Deepening with each listen, a playful, dark, haunting journey past Mondrian and Archimedes to Charlie Brown. Good grief.
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BJMorganOct 6, 2004
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xcxcNov 18, 2003real good totally different from the velvet underground. Yet still manages to sound real creative and extremely druggy.
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