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Feb 15, 2013Overall, there is a return to the less expansive sound of early I Am Kloot without the grand strings and orchestral swoops of “Sky at Night”, the trio tight but relaxed with Bramwell’s voice pushed to the fore and the songs sounding better for it.
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Q MagazineJan 24, 2013As homeopathic remedies for heartache and life's unkindness, these reflective songs are persuasive and when the group decide to fly with the moment-seizing, easy-psych These Days Are Mine, it's doubly invigorating. [Feb 2013, p.105]
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Jan 22, 2013It marries a downbeat songcraft to an expansive sound courtesy of producers Guy Garvey and Craig Potter.
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Jan 18, 2013While these songs are like discarded pub furniture, Bramwell sounds like a wiley old alley cat, sat on top of it and looking up.
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MojoJan 18, 2013It's Bramwell's knack for a kind of "surely this one must be a cover-version" classicism that impresses most. [Feb 2013, p.96]
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UncutJan 16, 2013Let It All In is all kitchen-sink realism and mordant one-liners best exemplified in the TS Elliot-influenced "Some Day Better."
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Jan 16, 2013Let It All In is a tighter, more relaxed LP, full of beautifully restrained, crafted songs.
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Jan 16, 2013Over far too quickly, it's another near flawless record from the Manchester trio.
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Feb 11, 2013Let It All In is another strong album in I Am Kloot’s canon, and one which should hopefully see their status as songwriting legends confirmed.
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Jan 30, 2013While overall, I Am Kloot's sixth album reads like a heartfelt and stylized ten-chapter celebration of classic pop--with the opening half consolidating Bramwell's position as one of England's most unjustifiably overlooked songwriters--it's only a minor disappointment that four of the final five chapters included here sail dangerously close to pastiche.
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Jan 22, 2013With this, their follow-up, they're in familiar miserably poetic folk-song territory. For some reason, every song evokes the pub.
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Jan 17, 2013At times it's so polite and elegant it almost passes you by, yet on every song you're soon gently overpowered by the sheer heart and homespun wisdom of the lyrics.
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Jan 16, 2013It's a consistently intriguing album and, in the long run, may even prove more enduring than its predecessor.
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Jan 22, 2013The best of these blues and folk-indebted songs carry the faint warmth and reassuring whiff of an old pub as frontman John Bramwell reflects wittily on life's disappointments. But there's a pervading drabness that they struggle to shake.
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Jan 18, 2013Let It All In is stylishly rendered in simple instrumental colours, but it's not the cheeriest of experiences.