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Jun 4, 2021What makes Hardware cook are the very elements that always work for Gibbons: deceptively sharp songwriting that supports full-throttle rockers and soulful, slow(er) grooves. It's a formula that's yielded great results for Gibbons throughout the years, and they do once again here.
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Jun 4, 2021There aren’t many surprises on Hardware, but with Gibbons now pushing into his mid-70s, should we expect any? He sells everything with his committed performance and sounds like he’s having a blast. At this late stage in his career, we shouldn’t ask for, or expect, more.
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Jun 4, 2021While he’s not straying too far from the mothership, nothing here is phoned-in. As befits the craftsman he’s always been, he’s taken the time and trouble to fashion a bunch of songs worthy of standing alongside anything in his catalogue. Hats off.
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MojoJun 4, 2021Gibbons' gnarly guitars and sand-blasted voice are impeachable. [Jul 2021, p.80]
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The WireJun 29, 2021It is the slick heat of Gibbons’s liquid guitar groove, tempered by the equally blistering yet mysterious cool of his desert surroundings, that makes Hardware a deeper listening experience than initially expected. [Jun 2021, p.52]
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Jun 4, 2021On Hardware and elsewhere in his solo career, there remains little doubt about what he does best. [Jul 2021, p.32]