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Oct 24, 2018If by representing these protest songs Ono intended to convey how little has changed since she first recorded them in the spirit of social activism then she has succeeded, but Warzone also highlights how the conversation has evolved.
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Oct 19, 2018Maybe Warzone is better understood as a deep-cut career retrospective than a singular album. Despite its stylistic consistency, the record is uneven and only its closing track, a reworking of “Imagine,” will ring any bells to those casually familiar with Ono’s work.
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Oct 18, 2018Ono’s continued Flower Power philosophy--“People of America, when will we see?” goes “Now or Never”--feels simplistic at a time when artists are so used to deconstructing the social and political systems that Ono rails against. And so Warzone falls into a strange dichotomy: as the album closes with a version of “Imagine” that is hymn-like enough to sound like the heralding of a new dawn, the relevance of Ono’s protests feels as if it’s faded.
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Q MagazineOct 15, 2018Left to her own devices, she radically strips back her earlier material and it works. [Nov 2018, p.111]
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Oct 15, 2018Warzone is as much about her individual experiences as it is about the world we all inhabit. The album is not without flaws, the sentimentality of certain songs occasionally threatening to spill into the maudlin, but the overriding sense is one of deep and critical reflection, offering a sensitivity that is needed in our world now as much as ever.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 22
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Mixed: 2 out of 22
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Negative: 10 out of 22
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Oct 22, 2018just because I want to give it a 10, and you cannot do anything about it...
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May 29, 2019
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Oct 19, 2018