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- Summary: This is the fifth studio album for the ex-Arab Strap band member.
- Record Label: Full Time Hobby
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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As ever from this source, the songs are neatly crafted, with a touch of folk music added to their melodies, not to mention the instantly memorable and quotable lyrics.
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The combination of bile and hook, of wiry, mistrustful intelligence meshed in danceable synth pop works throughout the album, the contradictions bristling without overwhelming the tunes.
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Q MagazineThe folowing eight songs amount to a proper return to formm, with Middleton's always literate eye for trivial detail matched by catchy acoustic pop tunes and an underlying bleakness that is quietly gripping. [Jul 2009, p.128]
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Middleton and company burn through a set of excellent songs with confidence, ranging from other quick-as-hell rundowns to calm reflection.
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Waxing Gibbous is a good, if occasionally overdone, album that proves that his musical imagination is still a fertile one.
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UncutThere's a sense that it trawls the finest moments of his 15-year carreer. [Jul 2009, p.93]
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His new set is disarmingly jaunty, occasionally odd – as on the scratchy electro-folk of ‘Don’t Want To Sleep Tonight’ – and frequently lovely, chiefly on the parched reverie of ‘Ballad Of Fuck All.’
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