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Nov 11, 2015The standard dips slightly in the later stages, but the grooves throughout are sleek and snappy, and CeeLo himself has rarely sounded better.
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Nov 16, 2015Heart may be a measured apology, but Green still has a defiant streak.
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Nov 16, 2015The breezy Isley Brothers/Free Design hybrid "Race Against Time," the perseverance anthem "Music to My Soul," and the disco-soul/soft rock compound "Better Late Than Never" are all decked out, and are among Green's craftiest work.
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Feb 23, 2016He still has a lot of talent, he just needs to reign in his creative impulses (along with a few others) to make a better album next time.
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MojoDec 11, 2015This new album is as quixotic and wilfully idiosyncratic as his previous oeuvre. [Jan 2016, p.88]
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Dec 2, 2015At 15 tracks, Heart Blanche is not much longer than 2010’s The Lady Killer and noticeably shorter than his first two albums, which both had no less than 18 tracks. However, sequencing is the heart of any album and Heart Blanche palpitates from its redundancy.
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Nov 17, 2015From someone whose appeal relies so heavily on his openness and honesty, the album feels out of balance: like there's a hole where its heart should be.
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Nov 11, 2015Green is too talented to not make a decent-sounding album, but Heart Blanche, while delivering Green's usually masterful take on gospel-influenced and pop-minded R&B, feels listless and lacks passion.
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UncutJan 12, 2016His voice remains an effortless marvel, largely wasted on this slick but trite material. [Feb 2016, p.75]
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Nov 18, 2015Three bad songs on an album of 15 tracks shouldn’t sink the entire album. And it doesn’t sink Heart Blanche. Not quite. But it happens that those three tracks are probably the album’s biggest and boldest in one form or another.
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Nov 11, 2015It’s no surprise that the romantic tunes are shunted to the second half of the record. As they go, they go well.
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Dec 2, 2015In an era where disco has found a second life all over the pop charts, Green's throwback barely makes a thud.
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Nov 12, 2015While Heart Blanche occasionally reminds us of Green’s quirky songwriting nous, it ends up a confusing jumble of styles and mixed messages.
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Nov 11, 2015Bloated, brainless, and completely lacking in self-awareness, it's a groaning monstrosity of an album, one that can't even put its overwhelming excess to any suitable use.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 18
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Mixed: 2 out of 18
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Negative: 7 out of 18
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