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Apr 12, 2021This is a real mixed bag, a lot of it sounds like Bill Nelson's post-Bebop Deluxe work with a lot of repetition, as if he wants to make sure that the listener gets the message. The second half of the album opens up to often very nice songs with nods to Bowie, Buddy Holly or the Kinks. Whatever the glue or concept is, it remains largely hidden.
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Sep 5, 2013As with most LPs of this density, momentum lapses between set-pieces, but The Argument's ambition demands respect, if only to pay dues to a man who waited 25 years to write his All Things Must Pass.
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Aug 23, 2013All very highbrow and ambitious for sure, yet despite portentous advance warnings of material involving fallen angels, the Garden Of Eden and Dante-ish visions of Hell, songs such as the plaintive Morningstar and the Buddy Holly-aping rattle of Letting Me Out quickly prove Hart’s still more than capable of channelling his lofty ideals through good ol’ verse-chorus-verse.
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Aug 13, 2013The very best tracks grapple with eternal themes of love, fear, suffering and the transmigration of the soul, with the overarching narrative largely irrelevant; the low points, however, take the dramatic framework and hit you upside the holy head.