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- Summary: The first full-length release on the Anti- label for the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter was produced by Phoebe Bridgers.
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- Record Label: Anti-
- Genre(s): Folk
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Positive: 7 out of 9
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Mixed: 2 out of 9
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Jun 8, 2020Hutson continues his startling ability to generate a world of his creation, and our making. It’s the little things that gift Hutson’s songs with a penetrable honesty, balanced between the softly plucked strings - beauty and realism.
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Q MagazineJun 30, 2020The world isn't short of observational singer-songwriters, but when the work is of this calibre it's pretty hard to resist. [Aug 2020, p.107]
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Jul 2, 2020While it’s a consistently strong collection, with no real missteps, certain tracks on Beginners really stand out. The quality peaks with the mid-album triumvirate of Unforgivable, Northsiders and Twin Souls.
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Jun 3, 2020Hutson’s musical style finds a perfect complement in Bridgers’ subtle production.
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Jun 3, 2020While the similarities to both his contemporaries and those who came before him are impossible to ignore, there are few musicians who could pull off singing about an aspiring building inspector and make it so equally funny and sweet—but Hutson possesses a rare balance of critical wit and soul.
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Jul 6, 2020Vulnerable, complex and beautiful, it is an album that gets richer with every listen, and cements Hutson’s status as a songwriter to take notice of.
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MojoJun 3, 2020Beginners is less rip-it-up statement than subtle realignment; less countrified and polished, more folky and sparse. [Jul 2020, p.80]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Apr 11, 2022
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