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Jun 24, 2013He specialises in staggeringly banal lyrics ("Grow old with me", "When you hold me in your arms I can feel your heart") delivered in an overwrought cry-baby warble, and song structures with big predictable sub-Keane, sub-Arcade Fire crescendos.
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Jun 24, 2013Here on Long Way Down, neither of Odell’s gifts [powerful tenor]--or their intimacy--are given space or time, lost instead in a sea of messy arrangements and a sense that, however fatuous, more must certainly mean better.
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Jun 20, 2013Odell may well sell a lot of records (though long term, he may not) but as far as art to engage and inspire goes, Long Way Down has precious little to recommend it.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 37 out of 45
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Mixed: 6 out of 45
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Negative: 2 out of 45
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Jan 17, 2016
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Jul 5, 2013
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Jun 29, 2013