SuperHeavy
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- Band Name: Superheavy
- Record Label: Universal Republic
- Release Date: Sep 20, 2011
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Sep 29, 201180Between Rahman's "Slumdog pop" on Mahiya (deluxe edition), Marley's melodic island jam, Miracle Worker, and Stone's vocal acrobatics fluttering around Jagger and Stewart and adding big choruses to Energy, the album's all over the place and never dull.
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Sep 27, 201125Most of SuperHeavy is frankly unlistenable, lacking even the professionalism and solid chops of late-period Stones records.
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Sep 23, 201150Perhaps 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 21, 201175This collaboration between one unequivocal superstar and four bright lights from disparate fields--Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damian Marley and A.R. Rahman--yields enough inspired results to ward off fears of any cross-cultural train wrecks.
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Sep 20, 201140An 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 20, 201180If the songs sometimes feel a bit undercooked, the spirit is dazzling.
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Sep 20, 201130Rather than synthesizing these various styles, they sound like they're working at cross-purposes, with every component so errantly fitted with the rest that SuperHeavy sounds schizophrenic.
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Sep 19, 201140The 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, 201160The quintet's debut is pretty good fun, fusing Stones-y raunch with brash Caribbean rhythms.
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Sep 19, 201120The combination of reggae, drivetime rock and Bollywood orchestration may work beautifully elsewhere, but not here--and Stone's soulful noodling only makes matters worse.
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Sep 19, 201167If SuperHeavy never quite answers that question [What the f--- is going on?], the group certainly has fun dodging it in bluesy soul-rock jams smeared with reggae grooves and Bollywood strings.
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Sep 15, 201160At 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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Dec 22, 201140[Songs swerve] between undistinguished reggae, so-so pop and indistinct blues-rock. [Nov 2011, p.92]
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Oct 18, 201140"SuperRandom" might be a better name. [Nov 2011, p.98]