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Mar 5, 2013Hitchcock is clearly having fun here, and while that sense of joyful, mad abandon may not always result in quality, it's hard not root for a guy who, at 60, isn’t afraid to stand behind his "honey naked and uncooked."
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Mar 5, 2013Put aside the historical perspective and just listen to Love From London. From the opening, minor-key piano strikes and repetitive swirls of opening track “Harry’s Song,” Hitchcock catches you--leaves you breathless--with his ability to compel.
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Mar 5, 2013While his customary playfulness in dissecting matters of the heart and cerebellum is a reassuring hallmark of Love From London, the album also proffers a brooding, politicised, sometimes incensed Hitchcock.
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Mar 5, 2013Love from London can be thought of as a gallery of bright watercolors with more portentous shades nestled in the background, or perhaps looming just off canvas.
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Mar 15, 2013It’s an album that doesn’t reinvent the wheel but adds an extra corner and somehow makes it go faster.
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Mar 20, 2013Love From London is the newest of the prolific jangle-rocker’s solo endeavors, but he’s still not finished reinventing himself.
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MagnetMar 15, 2013Love From London could use more of those surprising or insightfully startling juxtapositions that define his best labors. [No. 96, p.58]
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MojoMar 7, 2013Love From London once again shows his ability to reconcile the sheer peculiar wonder of being alive. [Apr 2013, p.96]
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Mar 7, 2013Love From London is by no means an Earth-shaking or life-changing record, but its virtues are plentiful, and so well balanced that its title is by equal measures sarcastic and sincere.
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Mar 12, 2013Love from London shows that far from resting on his laurels he’s still evolving as an artist, making music vital enough to be enjoyed on its own, highly personal terms.
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Q MagazineMar 12, 2013Hitchcock continues on a roll, all 10 songs here hooking you in with the head-nodding grooves and dreamy psych-pop tunes of seasoned pro. [Apr 2013, p.103]
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Jun 4, 2013There’s no instant standout, but the album both withstands and repays repeated listening.
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Apr 15, 2013This British singer-songwriter and psychedelic cult hero keeps issuing delightful, incisive rec ords, and this is one of his recent best.
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Mar 5, 2013As Love From London reinforces, he’s not relying on cleverness or humor as a crutch; even when he’s using elaborate imagery to explore a very simple feeling or situation, his sincerity never wavers.
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UncutMar 5, 2013Like Bryan Ferry aglow after the best afternoon stroll of his life, stylish and uncharacteristically serene. [Apr 2013, p.72]
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Under The RadarMar 22, 2013The album is a bit of a mixed batch. [Mar-Apr 2013, p.99]