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Ian Brown just keeps on getting better. As it stands, his way seems like the only way to go.
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With his sixth release, Brown has become the UK’s most consistently entertaining and often innovative solo artist.
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Q MagazineFocused and fighting fit, My way is proof that at 46 Ian brown is nevertheless prepared to go all 15 rounds. [Nov 2009, p.108]
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MojoHis exhilarating meld of hip hop beats and mesmeric grooves proves that should he reform his old band, it's not because he needs to. [Nov 2009, p.95]
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Minor gripes aside, My Way is far better than anyone could have expected from a singer whose reputation is still judged by his musical contribution from 20 years ago.
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This is a surprisingly engaging record that highlights Ian Brown as an underrated songwriter and arranger, and underscores the point that while his enthusiasm for creativity is as infectious as ever, Spike Island and its ilk are unlikely to be revisited in the forseeable future.
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All shuffling beats and pub wisdom, it's same again for Brown's latest.
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As with the rest of My Way, highlights and lowlights alike, you listen to it struggling to think of anyone else who would do this. And perhaps that's the secret of the most mysterious continuing success story in rock.
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Ian Brown follows an idiosyncratic path in keeping with My Way’s title--mixing up the kind of heavily synthesised rhythms learned from Jamaican dancehall with a curious cover of Zager And Evans’ dystopian folk oddity 'In The Year 2525,' some insidious grooves and, on closer 'So High,' a somewhat wayward stab at soul.
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For all its lofty goals and risky production decisions, the album runs out of steam with such sudden regression that it becomes impossible to advocate Brown's "way."
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 21
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Mixed: 0 out of 21
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Negative: 4 out of 21
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Jul 26, 2022Bad album altogether like i didn't like it at all .. also it didn't have a great sound
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Jul 17, 2022Album of the century!! King Monkey outdid himself with this one. An easy 10/10 for me.
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Jul 17, 2022My way is unarguably one of the greatest albums of all time. Props to the legendary Manc Ian Brown.