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- Summary: Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker makes his solo debut with this 14-song disc (which includes recent single "Running The World" as a secret bonus track).
- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 30
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Mixed: 1 out of 30
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Negative: 0 out of 30
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Beautifully sequenced, Jarvis makes the case for albums as opposed to downloads.
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A decade after he first set an impossibly hard act to follow, Jarvis Cocker has returned with an album that knocks not only his ageing contemporaries, but many of his descendents, for six.
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The main difference between Jarvis and Pulp's final album, We Love Life, is that the new record feels far less portentous, and more brightly poppy.
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A collection of songs that proves nearly as personal, as socially aware, and as deft at intertwining the two, as was Pulp’s 1998 opus, ‘‘This Is Hardcore.’’
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Jarvis is strong enough, smart enough, and at home enough with its ancient rock-star concerns and unembellished songcraft, for "Running the World" to remain a bonus track. This album doesn't need rescuing.
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'Jarvis' never quite gathers an irresistible momentum like his past glories did. There isn't a bad song on here, but there are several which don't fulfil their full potential.
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[The first half is] all dismayingly unconvincing and lacklustre in execution... Then something changes.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 12
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Mixed: 0 out of 12
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Negative: 1 out of 12
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Nov 4, 2013
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JasonLApr 4, 2007
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alanlMay 4, 2007A Morrisey for the new generations!!!!
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StephenCNov 16, 2006
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MichaelWApr 2, 2007Album really grew on me. I have had it for awhile, adn I hope my fellow Americans will get behind Jarvis
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ChrisPJan 19, 2007
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mikeyfApr 18, 2007anarchists are so chumbawumba.
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