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- Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the British singer-songwriter who won the 2013 BRITs Critic Choice Award.
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- Record Label: Columbia
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Another Love | |
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I wanna take you somewhere so you know I care, But it's so cold and I don't know where I brought you daffodils, in a pretty string, But they won't... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 14
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Mixed: 6 out of 14
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Negative: 3 out of 14
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Jul 30, 2013Long Way Down has just enough flaws to show that Odell has room to grow and progress. If you listen to one pop album this year, this is a pretty good bet.
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MojoJun 18, 2013Stripped back to vocals, drums and piano not a million miles from Nick Cave's Boatman's Call, of 10 tracks, not one's a duffer. [May 2013, p.87]
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Jun 20, 2013There's also something a little too contained, cling-filmed and... Keane-ey about it's measured percussion and guitar swells. Which leaves you feeling that although this is a very good record by a very talented young artist, it's probably not a patch on catching him live.
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Q MagazineJun 18, 2013There are too many songs here set to the same humdrum pace. But those are the sort of flaws you expect from a debut. [May 2013, p.112]
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Jun 20, 2013He may yet rise above the glut of similar-sounding Sheehans, Buggs and Mumfords, but hasn't yet found his voice.
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UncutJun 18, 2013For the most part, though, Long Way Down is relentless in its pursuit of a teen audience easily won over by a sensitive man-boy who knows his way around a piano. [May 2013, p.75]
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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.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 2 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Nov 30, 202210 years ago, listening to this album was the first time I loved an entire album top to bottom no exceptions. It was magical.
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Feb 11, 2018
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Nov 21, 2021Great debut for Brits critique winner of the year it was released and much deserved.
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