Critic Reviews
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Launch.com
With the exception of the swaggering "Vegas Two Times," Just Enough may not pack the same wallop as Cocktails, but tunes like "Lying In The Sun" and the soaring "Watch Them Fly Sundays" instantly stand out as some of the band's best to date.
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Mojo
Rarely has any modern band made The Difficult Third Album sound so breezy... [May 2001, p.96]
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Entertainment Weekly
Some of his most writerly songs to date.
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CDNow
This is a record that delights in the contrast of the group's no-frills rock past and its radio-friendly, mid-tempo future.
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L.A. Weekly
The clean-cut Stereophonics are the Black Crowes you could take home to your mom, only with stronger songs and without the high school histrionics.
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Dot Music
The Stereophonics are trying to say something, expressing something more than the exuberant rock songs with which they made their name. Only time will tell whether their fans will lap up an album almost entirely starved of the big guitar sounds and sweeping choruses they've grown accustomed to.
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Q Magazine
The problems are compounded by the sheer awfulness of some of Jones’ lyrics.... What often redeems them is the music. On that front, Stereophonics have undoubtedly progressed...
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Neumu.net
Mind you, Kelly Jones' voice is an acquired taste. If you warm to it, however, you'll then enjoy a wealth of simple country-tinged pop songs.
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Pitchfork
Considerably tamer than their stadium-rocking, chart-topping previous albums, Just Enough Education to Perform sounds less like a band voluntarily growing into their new-found maturity, and more like a pet's first, forced visit to the castration clinic.
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New Musical Express
Songwriting low on insight, high on moaning.
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