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  • Summary: The four-track mini-album from Primal Scream’s Martin Duffy and Beta Band founder Steve Mason was mixed by producer Brendan Lynch.
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  1. 80
    Great fun, from first to last.
  2. Mojo
    Dec 20, 2017
    80
    All told: a mighty uplifting wheeze. [Feb 2018, p.97]
  3. Dec 1, 2017
    80
    Livin' in Elizabethan Times is 28 minutes of big dumb fun. Big dumb fun with a great concept. Each song is full of hilarious deadpan lyrics, delivered like only Mason knows how, intricate composition that showcase both Mason’s and Duffy’s skill and prowess. If this is a one off, then we’ve been given something special, if this is the first instalment in a series of releases, then we’re in real treat.
  4. Q Magazine
    Dec 1, 2017
    80
    Bananas but in a good way. [Jan 2018, p.106]
  5. Uncut
    Dec 1, 2017
    70
    It comprise four lengthy tracks, from the wood-wind-assisted Led Zep-sized rocker "This One's For The Human" to the one chord motorik Krautrock of "The Visitations." Best of all is "The Moon IS Not Your Friend," in which a McCartney-styled guilty pleasure is bookended by terrifying space-age FX. [Jan 2018, p.17]
  6. Dec 18, 2017
    70
    Sure, the set meanders a bit too far into the woods here and there, but overall, Elizabethan Times is a winner from two great minds of U.K. pop.
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