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- Summary: The fifth album from the Nebraska-born singer-songwriter is indeed influenced by the music of 1972 (the year Rouse was born).
- Record Label: Rykodisc
- Genre(s): Rock, Adult-Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 11
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Mixed: 0 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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If you say you've heard a better adult pop record this year, you are lying.
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UncutIt's all done with such obvious love and affection and literate craft that Rouse has gone and made one of the albums of the year. Even if the year is 1972. [Oct 2003, p.114]
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MagnetEven the most seriously depressed songs here have a lightness that's been missing in the past. [#60, p.111]
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1972 has less urgency than Rouse's inconsistent but promising debut, Dressed Up Like Nebraska, and save for the last two tracks doesn't approach the earnest, careworn sublimity exhibited on Under Cold Blue Stars. It is, however, one of his most polished releases.
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Rouse pushes the envelope in a completely different direction, and with modest, although not total, success, he delivers an album that will rival the New Pornographers' Electric Version as the -- for lack of a better word -- most fun album of the year.
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Rolling StoneRouse... comes on like a happier and wittier Elliott Smith. [30 Oct 2003, p.93]
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BlenderHis perkiest album yet. [Sep 2003, p.132]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Apr 4, 2013
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PhilippeDOct 29, 2005An absolute classic, not a single average song. Grows on you over time
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MattOct 4, 2003
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ScottOct 24, 2003
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Aug 6, 2011
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LukeMay 3, 2005Great album
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