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  • Summary: 'Songs' (one of two April 2006 releases) is the former Television frontman's first vocal release in sixteen years. Television's Fred Smith guests.

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. Uncut
    80
    The best tracks... are almost as good as Television's monumental Marquee Moon. [May 2006, p.100]
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  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    It doesn't seem the product of so revered an artist. [29 Apr 2006, p.37]
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  3. Stylus Magazine
    33
    Fans of Verlaine's Television-era storytelling will be disappointed to hear him so simultaneously unchanged and unforthcoming.

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  1. CHARLESM
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    A. C.D. that repays repeated listening, some times irritating, occasionally sloppy but never boring. A welcome return from near oblivion for one of musics few originals. And nice to hear Tom looking for new sounds, moving forward, away from Marquee Moon, and Foxhole and Words from the Front and Call Mr Lee and into the more thoughtful, paced territory of a man in late middle age. I sure hope that he lives up to his promise to continue recording now that he has picked up on his career and that he makes some money out of it this time around… Expand
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