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Luke Haines
- Record Label: Cherry Red
- Release Date: Sep 29, 2017
- Summary: The four-disc collection of songs from the solo career of the British singer-songwriter features B-sides, radio session and previously unreleased songs.
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- Record Label: Cherry Red
- Genre(s): Britpop, Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Film Music, Neo-Glam
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Oct 12, 2017A prime opportunity to taste everything from Haines’ buffet--sweet and savoury alike.
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Oct 10, 2017This is a collection that displays consistently and rigorously the undervalued, underexposed talent of one of the country’s best post-Ray Davies songwriters and one that, despite its length and sometimes haphazard nature is a fitting milestone to this prolific, profound and playful master of the songwriting form.
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Oct 10, 2017This is a great collection from a unique artist. Haines is a dazzling songwriter who, although he loves rock ‘n’ roll, feels no need to endlessly recreate the same timeworn material until he finally succumbs to the supper club circuit.
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Oct 10, 2017Longtime fans will find plenty of grist for the mill, but for the uninitiated, Haines will likely remain a singular but elusive character, which is probably exactly the way he likes it.
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UncutOct 17, 2017[The] 4CD set filleting his post-Auteurs solo works. ... Disc four features wreckage from his abandoned musical about demon landlord Nicholas van Hoogstraten. [Nov 2017, p.48]