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Jul 25, 2014McGuinness is having a fantastic time on this album, but the try-too-hard attempts at shock value and relatively derivative riffs occasionally detract from what is an otherwise fantastic recontextualization of British alternative rock into older trends.
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Jul 21, 2014On Chroma, he's got enough lines in the water that he's bound to get a bite sooner or later.
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Jul 7, 2014While it’s often been easy to sum up McGuinness himself with that statement, whether he wants the attention or not Chroma is a forceful enough effort to propel him centre-stage.
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Jul 3, 2014What makes a person charming--songwriter or not--is that adaptability to a situation. It’s the sort of malleability we lose as age hardens us or we simply get stuck in our ways. But Eugene McGuinness hasn’t lost it yet.
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Jul 3, 2014It’s a more evolved release for sure, and with less it seems Eugene McGuinness can actually achieve more.
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Jul 10, 2014If this record feels like a triumph of style over substance, I still like its style.
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Jul 3, 2014All in All is simply lovely. The rest of the album isn't always this good, so perhaps only inconsistency is holding back his rise to pop's higher league.
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MojoJul 3, 2014Former Miles Kane sideman McGuinness concocts his fifth solo record with solid powerpop. [Aug 2014, p.96]
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Q MagazineJul 3, 2014A lack of sonic variety and a mild sense of deja vu won't help to advance his cause. [Aug 2014, p.110]
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Jul 9, 2014McGuinness’s inclination to throw the kitchen sink at listeners is as fully on display here as it’s ever been, which makes for a pretty busy listen. But it never threatens to get stuck down one track for too long, and that might be the best thing that Chroma has working in its favor.
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UncutAug 11, 2014Chroma strikes a largely upbeat mood, producer Dan Carey foregrounding a McGuinness vocal that's more often irksome than endearing amid the skittering rockabilly beats and lively but derivative soundscapes. [Sep 2014, p.75]