by
Andrew W.K.
- Record Label: Skyscraper Music Maker/Ecstatic Peace
- Release Date: Sep 8, 2009
- Summary: The fourth album for the California-born artist features solo piano pieces.
- Record Label: Skyscraper Music Maker/Ecstatic Peace
- Genre(s): Rock, Instrumental
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Positive: 3 out of 8
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Mixed: 4 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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Some of 55 Cadillac swells with too much melodrama ('Seeing The Car' sounds a little too West Wing for its own good), but the whole of it is impressive: a curio that makes a good case for sticking around.
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Fans of his louder music might not play this often, but 55 Cadillac is another step toward Andrew W.K. putting his stamp on every art form.
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55 Cadillac offers a fun, technically exciting journey that paints Andrew W.K. as an artist unafraid of risks.
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MojoAkin to career suicide, it's admirably bonkers but overlong. [Oct 2009, p.108]
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UncutAs ever, the combination of sincerity and sentimentality is overpowering. [Oct 2009, p.89]
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It's hard to speak ill of W.K., whose insistent excitement is disarming, and though the album is a mess, it's shiftless meanderings further his ethos of refusing to take rock stardom seriously.
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55 Cadillac is a vanity project from a man who might never have seemed deep enough to warrant such a thing.
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