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- Summary: Beach Boy Brian Wilson plays 15 of his songs with just a piano on his latest solo full-length release.
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- Record Label: Decca
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 3 out of 6
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Mixed: 3 out of 6
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Nov 22, 2021A genuinely enchanting release, At My Piano finds the musical giant comfortably at rest, while still dreaming as vividly as he always has.
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MojoNov 22, 2021One for the fans delighted he's still here and fascinated by how such classic songs started out. [Jan 2022, p.82]
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Dec 22, 2021The main shortcoming of At My Piano is that even though Brian Wilson is playing songs that he wrote, the mellow, elevator music style of these versions doesn't sound any more significantly connected to Wilson than any other session musician or unknown piano player running through familiar tunes as background music at a martini bar would sound. Despite this, it's pleasant to hear these songs in a new form.
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UncutNov 22, 2021Many of these songs also feel like polite recital pieces, stripped of high drama, so that Wilson often sounds like a shadow of himself. [Dec 2021, p.35]
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Nov 22, 2021Whether one considers it an intimate experience, an organic encounter, an essential additive, or simply a cash-grab, it’s ultimately up to the listener to decide its worth.
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Nov 30, 2021What is unexpected is how Wilson sounds almost anonymous here. As he drifts through his greatest hits and personal favorites, he doesn’t invest his playing with much personality, so these smooth sounds are about as memorable as a piano twinkling away in the background of a department store.
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Dec 17, 2021Many of these songs also feel like polite recital pieces, stripped of high drama, so that Wilson often sounds like a shadow of himself
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Nov 29, 2021
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