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  • Summary: The latest release from Michael Collins features guest appearances from Ariel Pink, Danny James, Sheer Agony, and Weyes Blood.
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  • Record Label: Weird World
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Suddenly
Suddenly my mind is open, and I know you won't the be sad in the day Tempted by the morning sun And I now I feel, like I'm home again Ahh, I'm home... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Q Magazine
    Sep 8, 2016
    80
    It feels like a coherent vision, even if it occasionally spills into narco-whimsy. [Oct 2016, p.107]
  2. Uncut
    Sep 8, 2016
    80
    This is one of his richer projects: a breezy Laurel Canyon love-in. [Oct 2016, p.28]
  3. Oct 27, 2016
    80
    He made an album so short and sweet that it’s likely all you’ll want to listen to for a long time.
  4. Sep 9, 2016
    78
    Despite the stuffing of unnecessary transition tracks on this album, Drugdealer still makes a clean getaway with The End of Comedy.
  5. Sep 9, 2016
    74
    There’s a newfound focus that was missing even on Salvia Plath’s The Bardo Story and Silk Rhodes’ self-titled.
  6. Sep 8, 2016
    70
    Many of the songs are free of artifice, boiled down to voice and guitar or left nearly naked to let the emotional impact of the melodies and words cut more deeply.
  7. Mojo
    Sep 8, 2016
    60
    Michael Collins' latest sounds like a 21st century Ween--knowing pastiches of '70s Laurel Canyon, '60s jazz soundtracks and more, with guests. [Oct 2016, p.100]

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  1. Sep 27, 2021
    8
    This is a fun album with many different instruments that changes up tone, genre, and tempo on the turn of a dime. With inspired featuredThis is a fun album with many different instruments that changes up tone, genre, and tempo on the turn of a dime. With inspired featured vocalists that give each song a unique feel. Expand