Wooden Arms - Patrick Watson
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Universal acclaim- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: The Montreal band releases its follow-up to 2007's "Close to Paradise."
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
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  1. The spontaneous sounding arrangements--topped by Watson's uniquely mercurial voice--are at turns ornate, grand and subtle, but never less than totally bewitching.
  2. 80
    More ambitious than on past efforts, Watson slips through quiet night spaces, and like Sendak's Max, puts on his wolf suit, making mischief of one kind, then another, until Wooden Arms flares with his vibrant energy.
  3. 60
    He's lost his way a little bit here. [Jun 2009, p.109]
  4. Patrick Watson doesn't do foundation work exceedingly well. Yet this is not to say that there aren't moments on Wooden that suggest songcraft was the foremost urge.

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