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Jun 27, 2016On his third LP (and first minus additional songwriters), 22-year-old U.K. roots revivalist Jake Bugg mixes Americana and British folk as skillfully as ever. ... He's less successful updating his sound.
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Jun 16, 2016Sometimes the resulting tracks are just cringeworthy – such as the astonishingly cack-handed hip-hop of Ain’t No Rhyme. Elsewhere, though, they turn out to be quite endearing.
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Jun 16, 2016It’s only when he plays to his strengths that On My One comes into its own.
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MojoJun 15, 2016The result is confusing, as with any roots artist messing with synths and beats. Even so, when he doing his familiar stark, keening vocal and raw country-blues thing and sentimental lighters-aloft pop, he's still deeply impressive. [Jul 2016, p.92]
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Jun 15, 2016Though not quite as potent as Shangri La, but it constitutes a confident negotiation of the “difficult third album” hurdle.
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Jun 17, 2016On the whole, the produced numbers are better than the unadorned cuts: Bugg's nasal twang gets buried underneath the gloss and the hooks are pushed to the forefront. The whole thing adds up to a bit of a mess, not in the least because Bugg's schtick was his authenticity.
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Jun 16, 2016Co-producer Jacknife Lee overcooks tracks, alternately adding too much sugar and bluster (“Bitter Salt”). Throughout, it seems Bugg’s ambition has clouded his creative judgment.
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Jul 19, 2016The result is an awkward shouldering of styles and personas in search of one that fits.
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Jun 16, 2016Bugg has always had one foot in the past and that’s fine, but On My One might as well be an official challenge to The Strypes in the ‘parents record collection’ department--though a mercifully more bearable one.
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Positive: 28 out of 38
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Mixed: 3 out of 38
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Negative: 7 out of 38
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