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  • Summary: The latest full-length solo release from New Yorker Jesse Malin was produced by Derek Cruz and Geoff Sanoff.
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  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Nov 17, 2021
    80
    Sad And Beautiful Worlds finds him showing off those songwriting skills, delivering country-tinged ballads, bubblegum pop and twinkling Americana in typically effortless fashion. It's when he lets his guard down, however, that Malin is at his most impressive. [Oct 2021, p.72]
  2. 70
    He’s a rocker with a folksinger’s soul, or perhaps a folkie with a rocker’s spirit. In either case, both sides are well represented over the course of these 15 tracks that prove Jesse Malin’s creativity is alive and well.
  3. Uncut
    Nov 17, 2021
    70
    You need a surfeit of great songs to justify a double album in these attention deficit times, but Malin seems to have them by the bucketful. [Jan 2022, p.27]
  4. Mojo
    Nov 17, 2021
    60
    Roots-rock Zelig with a punk past, the New Yorker's double long-player has Roots Rock and Radical discs. [Nov 2021, p.94]