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Sep 15, 2015Honor among thieves, love amongst scoundrels... Keith Richards has carved an encompassing survey of his own spirit and set it to a vast set of influences for all to see.
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Sep 21, 2015Crosseyed Heart could have been issued at any time in the past four decades. It’s full of influences he’s spent his creative life exploring, and there’s nothing viral or meme-worthy about them. That Richards keeps discovering nuance within those original texts is a testament to his seemingly infinite muse.
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Sep 21, 2015It has a satisfyingly gritty texture, more stripped back than a Stones album, and reveals a surprising amount of vulnerable feeling underneath the gunslinger swagger.
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Sep 18, 2015It's a winningly low-key record, where the atmosphere matters more than the songs, yet Richards doesn't neglect writing tunes this time around.
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Sep 17, 2015A terrific album, worthy of one of rock’s founding fathers.
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Sep 16, 2015In the end, most of the songs feel like demos--but that stripped result honors the joy of raw feeling.
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Sep 15, 2015Country, spiritual, rock both voodoo and drivetime; it’s a masterfully messy mash-up, yet the contemporary grime and gravel caking Crosseyed Heart is quintessentially Keef.
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Sep 3, 2015Crosseyed Heart actually delivers.
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Aug 31, 2015The guitarist has made the best and most honest of his outside raids, freshening his classicism with a hard stare at payback and mortality. [Oct 2015, p.91]
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MagnetNov 17, 2015Stones-y rockers a la "Heartstopper" and "Trouble" have more chug and balls than Richards' band has displayed in a while. [No. 126, p.59]
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Oct 12, 2015Crosseyed Heart would have benefited from some trimming; it could’ve done without a few of the riff-rockers and the ballad “Suspicious”, a rehash of “This Room is Empty” from the Stones’ A Bigger Bang album and “Wicked as it Seems” from Main Offender. But the album’s virtues outweigh its longeurs.
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Sep 22, 2015At fifteen tracks, the formula could easily have run stale were it not for a couple of sneaky surprises.
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Sep 21, 2015Crosseyed Heart will serve as proof that it ain’t Keef who’s over the hill.
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Sep 16, 2015The relatively low ratio of octane riffage means many of these songs hinge on Richards's worn, oaky voice. His low, craggly growl suits the rock songs well, and he manages perhaps the tenderest vocal performance of his career on the reggae-infused “Love Overdue.”
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Sep 14, 2015His most eccentric and best-ever solo set.
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Q MagazineAug 31, 2015Crosseyed Heart sounds fantastic and beautifully put together. [Oct 2015, p.110]
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UncutAug 31, 2015Lyrically, Richards sometimes relies too heavily on the Random Stones Lyric Generator. But Richards has always worn his humour and his soul well, and these qualities are sympathetically served here. [Oct 2015, p.70]
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Sep 17, 2015Some ideas get recycled throughout the record, and there’s a tighter 10-track LP in there if listeners care to edit for themselves.
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Sep 21, 2015The guy who wrote "Angie," "Wild Horses," and "Ruby Tuesday" sprinkles the album with ballads, though the only one that has a pulse is Gregory Isaacs' reggae lament "Love Overdue." The other slow ones wobble.
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Sep 21, 2015By the end, you find yourself wishing he was just a little more prolific.
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Sep 18, 2015Whatever style he uses on this first solo album in more than two decades, from country-blues to croon, rock’n’roll to reggae, he sustains that character as a unifying thread.
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Sep 11, 2015The man is a master guitarist--and an unflashy one, content to let a wash of pedal steel or a sprig of piano commandeer the songs.
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