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On a couple of tracks neither hard-working studio team nor visiting vocalist get it right, but the impression is of all ego finally set aside in favour of engaging musical honesty.
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Stewart is surely a fine singer, but not quite at that level of being able to make the phone book sound like a masterpiece. He needs the songs, and on Human, he's only as good as the material that others provide.
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Although Human occasionally slides into easy-listening soul, the still-spiky star delivers assured, remarkably smooth vocals throughout.
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Shunning those bawdy, mike-tossing rock'n'roll tendencies of yore and aiming at the modish pop/R&B middle ground inhabited by the likes of R. Kelly, he's made what is easily his most cheering, soulful collection in years.
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Like John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, Stewart has done a reasonably good job of making his music millennium-friendly without alienating aging baby boomers for whom the occasional Tom Waits cover is adventure enough.
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Entertainment WeeklyHuman is too glib and uneven to ignite new excitement. [2/16/2001, p.99]
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Just as Stewart's last major hit wisely spoke directly to his generation, Human unwisely seeks to plug him into the present one.
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Human is the sound of an artist painfully trying to sound modern but -- by trying to sound fresh -- sounding older than he ever has.
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Collaborations with Helicopter Girl on 'Don't Come Around Here', with Macy Gray on 'Smitten' and the loving if overproduced take on of Curtis Mayfield's 'It Was Love That We Needed' stand out as highlights but only because the rest of this collection comes with the words 'will this do' burned deeply into its flabby, bovine arse.
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