Margins - Paul Smith
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  • Summary: Margins is the solo debut from Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith. Spirited.
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  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. This is, after all, the sound of Paul Smith freed of his band and label obligations - but the fact remains that Margins, while an interesting insight into a character, is a frustratingly hit-and-miss affair.
  2. 60
    At its best, Margins is unobtrusively impressive. [Nov 2010, p.101]
  3. Dec 22, 2010
    52
    But ultimately, Margins feels like an album of songs that needed to be exorcised more than shared.
  4. Margins though, is mawkish and self-indulgent to the last, a wet weekend of a record, drably trudging through inelegant, wannabe-Mike Leigh vignettes into Smith's failed relationship.

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