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- Summary: John Mellencamp latest album was produced by T Bone Burnett who also developed a new audio format promised to help the album sold sound like master tapes.
- Record Label: Hear Music
- Genre(s): Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 18
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Mixed: 5 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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Searching for a ray of lyrical light in John Mellencamp's latest treatise on the state of the world proves consuming—but largely fruitless. That, however, makes the album all the more compelling.
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A moody, stark and hypnotically discomfiting assortment of ruminations.
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UncutBleak but brilliant. [Nov 2008, p.109]
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It’s a brave album in the way it sets aside all his old consolations.
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For the most part Life Death Love and Freedom makes good on--and somehow makes entertainment of--its sober sense of purpose.
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His world-weariness feels legitimately earned rather than affected keeps Life from being just an exercise in pessimism.
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BlenderBy now he's decided he'd rather be Bob Dylan--recent Dylan, that is, devoted to phlegm-clogged blues-codger grumbles about how he's ready for his pine box. Producer T Bone Burnett proves a willing accomplice. [Aug 2008, p.88]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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RogerS.Jul 23, 2008
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MarcB.Jul 21, 2008
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williamb.Aug 16, 2008
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PatrickM.Jul 22, 2008Seems even Mellencamp's harshest critics have admitted this is a damn fine album.
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