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Sep 17, 2018Thankfully, McCartney appears to be grasping the nettle and squeezing the most out of life and his apparently never-ending songbook. A definite thumbs up.
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Sep 10, 2018McCartney is very much interested in keeping things lively, if not always lusty, while making room for the kind of quieter reflections heard back on 2005’s “Chaos.”
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Sep 10, 2018The finest songs here land immediately and hum with urgency.
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Sep 7, 2018It is the sound of an old rocker at full steam ahead, determined to keep on rolling for as long as he can.
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Sep 7, 2018McCartney’s always been about inclusivity and openness, but this latest glimpse into his life feels like a particularly enlightening one.
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Sep 6, 2018So many records as reflective and evocative as Egypt Station prove to be career codas. Despite occasional misfires this one proves that, at 76, McCartney, socially and sonically, still has plenty to say.
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Sep 5, 2018Egypt Station flows as a unit, structured like a long ride on a cosmic train, beginning and ending with ambient railway-station noise.
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Sep 5, 2018For the most part, this is an album that constantly projects joy and musical adventurousness, qualities which have signified this career for more than a half-century.
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Sep 4, 2018Making few concessions to 21st-century noise but equally never sounding old, Egypt Station is up there with Paul McCartney’s best solo work.
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MojoAug 29, 2018Every song puts a tap in your toe, a worm in your ear and a smile on your face. [Oct 2018, p.85]
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Q MagazineAug 29, 2018He's enjoying his music far too much to stop now. And so, for the matter, are we. [Oct 2018, p.106]
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Sep 7, 2018The vulnerability is one of the album’s most endearing features. It skirts the-great-man-stares-into-the-abyss-of-mortality melodrama that has become a late-career-album cliche for many of McCartney’s peers. Instead it presents a plainspoken realism, an earthiness in keeping with his working-class upbringing.
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Sep 13, 2018Sure, the lyrical content on Egypt Station isn't necessarily a work of pure genius, but it's pure Paul and that means a great deal.
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Sep 11, 2018The thing that Kurstin brings to the table is a refinement, letting Paul's ideas shine incandescently while also revealing that a record this clever isn't tossed off, it's crafted in every respect.
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Sep 11, 2018Egypt Station feels like Paul McCartney having a blast being Macca, grasping his own identity, and relishing it--a fun, at times downright bold, return it’s something fans will cherish.
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Sep 6, 2018Egypt Station is best when McCartney is at his most eclectic.
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UncutAug 29, 2018If Egypt Station is quite startling enough to shift preconceptions about the most famous musician on the planet, it's sufficiently vibrant to justify its existence, and strong enough to ensure that McCartney can sprinkle three or four tracks into the set on his upcoming world tour without setting off any alarms. [Oct 2018, p.28]
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Sep 5, 2018Egypt Station is a minor entry in a major catalog, a Paul McCartney record for people who like Paul McCartney records.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 64 out of 88
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Mixed: 12 out of 88
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Negative: 12 out of 88
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