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Sep 23, 2011Perhaps if the album actually had some kineticism to its eclecticism, or at least a hook or a tune, it would earn its wannabe evangelism, but the untrammeled indulgence turns this into a gaudy multicolored circus.
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Sep 20, 2011An almost total lack of good songs constitutes the album's basic problem. Once that's understood, the record becomes sort of entertaining: gaudy, vacuous, densely mannered.
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Sep 19, 2011The sad fact about supergroups is that they are rarely the result of any musical imperative. This is painfully confirmed on the debut offering from the alliance of Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damian Marley and A R Rahman, on which the assembled talents cast around for a style of their own without ever unearthing the natural chemistry on which great bands rely.
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Sep 19, 2011The quintet's debut is pretty good fun, fusing Stones-y raunch with brash Caribbean rhythms.
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Sep 15, 2011At its least enjoyable, however, you're struck--not for the first time in Jagger's extracurricular oeuvre--by a sense of star-studded pointlessness.
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MojoDec 22, 2011[Songs swerve] between undistinguished reggae, so-so pop and indistinct blues-rock. [Nov 2011, p.92]
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UncutOct 18, 2011"SuperRandom" might be a better name. [Nov 2011, p.98]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 21
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Mixed: 7 out of 21
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Negative: 5 out of 21
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