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It's not the best thing he's ever done, but it's up there with it.
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MojoAn experimental, sensual collection of songs harking back to the days of the first Gorky's EPs. [Mar 2006, p.104]
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Under The RadarAn album of varied pop beauty, both jubilant and affecting. [#16, p.96]
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New Musical Express (NME)Sadly, he only briefly reaches the heights of his best Gorky's work. [18 Feb 2006, p.36]
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The album's overall flow and structure is decidedly disjointed, with a scattering of tiny, demo-quality tracks adding virtually nothing to the record.
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'Chops' isn't wholly disastrous, but it's all too often a reminder that, for roughly his first decade onstage, Childs was an infuriatingly insular and mildly indulgent performer, and it now appears that he was able to make such genuinely fantastic records in spite of that because of the healthy influence of his band-mates.
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Q MagazineThere's still no getting over the patchiness. [Mar 2006, p.106]
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UncutNot wholly satisfying. [Mar 2006, p.102]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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DermotRFeb 19, 2007
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StubertMJan 7, 2007Better than you lot make out.
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AnthonyJNov 29, 2006Despite a few album worthy tracks, this album has two major flaws, it's short and yet it feels padded with short tracks of pschadelic nonsense.