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  • Summary: The latest full-length solo release for the pop artist was produced by Chris Braide.
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  • Record Label: BMG
  • Genre(s): Vocal, Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Vocal Pop, Torch Songs
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  1. Feb 3, 2020
    80
    The production, sequencing, and performances on Chaos and a Dancing Star reveal Almond at his most sophisticated and ambitious, at the very top of his game; these songs are beautifully written and arranged, and they arrive as deep emanations from the singer's personal well of passion, pleasure, heartbreak, sin, and loss.
  2. Feb 3, 2020
    80
    The pop souls of both its creators couldn’t help but surface, and this is manifestly true of many of the tracks: the words may be dark, but the upbeat hummable melodies just keep on returning from the crypt.
  3. Q Magazine
    Feb 3, 2020
    60
    Even when the music threatens to sag into MOR dullness, as on Slow Burn Love, Almond's unmistakable voice - equal measures of defiance and fragility - lifts it up high.[Mar 2020, p.114]
  4. Mojo
    Feb 3, 2020
    60
    His macabre tendency has evolved further into a kind of disaster romanticism on his 21st album. [Mar 2020, p.89]
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