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  • Summary: The solo debut release from the Belle and Sebastian guitarist shows influences from 1960's pop music.
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  1. 83
    His jangly, '60s-style ditties are allowed to run free through the village green. [20 Jul 2012, p.72]
  2. Jul 2, 2012
    70
    Jackson may have been cast in the eternal sideman role in Belle & Sebastian, but (I Can't Get No) Stevie Jackson shows without a doubt that he is a pop craftsman in his own right.
  3. Aug 22, 2012
    60
    The album works its minimal beats and retrograde high to near perfection, perhaps only because of it had the ultimate incubation period. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.118]
  4. Aug 24, 2012
    60
    No one's asking Jackson to bare his soul. Still, there's a surface-y, writing-exercise quality to many of these songs. (I Can't Get No) Stevie Jackson doesn't really give us much Stevie Jackson, just some clever jottings and puns and tunes he's scratched out in a notebook.

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