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Oct 11, 2017As You Were is practically all comfortable, predictable, Oasis-without-Noel comfort food.
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Oct 10, 2017As convincing as Liam Gallagher is when he audaciously boasts that he's "got the Midas touch" early on in the album, As You Were doesn't ever quite turn to gold.
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Oct 9, 2017A set of songs that, if not remarkable, are at least an upgrade.
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Oct 6, 2017‘You Better Run’, while perfectly adequate, has the aura of ‘pub back room’ to its chugging riffs; it’s fine, but it’s largely filler. In general though, As You Were is almost certainly the best thing Liam’s offered us since he parted ways with his big bro.
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Oct 6, 2017The final result is an agreeable enough listen.
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Oct 5, 2017If As You Were is not an unalloyed triumph, then nor is it the stuff of career-ending disaster. Its failings are the failings you could level at pretty much every Oasis album, its sprinkling of highlights an improvement on most of their output since the mid-90s.
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Oct 5, 2017Following the largely insipid twinklings of his Beady Eye, As You Were suggests that, given the right conditions and appropriate collaborators, Liam Gallagher could become a more potent force than expected--especially if he could broaden his musical outlook beyond such predictable parameters.
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Oct 9, 2017Over-produced but under-written, the combined cast of co-writers and producers have failed to knit together a cohesive whole. Plenty of these songs are pleasant enough, but there’s very little to mark an artist in their prime.
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Oct 5, 2017The diluted authorship leaves him floundering amid songs that manage to be overly complex and fiercely indistinct at the same time.
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Oct 12, 2017Subtlety is an early casualty, lyrics and riffs hitting with all the grace and charm of a sledgehammer.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 97 out of 121
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Mixed: 19 out of 121
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Negative: 5 out of 121
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