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- Summary: The collaborative album from Todd Rundgren features Alfie, Rivers Cuomo, Thomas Dolby, Neil Finn, Davey Lane, Narcy, Rick Nielsen, Sparks, The Lemon Twigs, The Roots, and Steve Vai.
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- Record Label: Cleopatra
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Art Rock
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Dec 19, 2022The scattergun concept inevitably results in a broad range of styles and not all of them are entirely successful. ... Still, the above are minor quibbles, as the bulk of the album is a gorgeous concoction of disparate inspirations finding hitherto elusive homes. The guests get their works in progress nailed by an esteemed craftsman, while Rundgren himself, a man with a partial history of self-sufficiency bordering on the behaviour of a control freak, sounds reinvigorated by allowing others into his world.
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Dec 19, 2022Rundgren is possibly the only musician for whom a lack of any thematic coherency across a record doesn’t result in total disaster. It works - don’t ask me how.
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The WireDec 19, 2022To these ears at least, Rundgren’s finest since 2008’s Arena. [Jan 2023, p.75]
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Dec 19, 2022The results are naturally a bit scattered sonically, as any record featuring Steve Vai and the Roots would inevitably be, yet it's tied together by Rundgren's aural aesthetic and sense of mischief.