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Jun 5, 2014Herd Runners is another excellent record by a disastrously underrated songwriter who doesn't believe in love, but doesn't get enough of it either. There's only so long he can wait.
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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014Herd Runners is ambitious and emotionally enthralling throughout. [Jun 2014, p.106]
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MojoMay 15, 2014This a masterful, emphatic stuff, brimful of poignant insights and unforgettable melodies. [Jun 2014, p.92]
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May 12, 2014Aldred shares Richard Hawley's producer Colin Elliot, but also his gruff, warmhearted authority, and it's a similar hard-won wisdom that makes Herd Runners so moving.
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May 12, 2014It’s certainly one of his best, and like numerous tracks on the LP, it plays with a glossy melancholia; a dark edge to the lush, string augmented tracks can be found in the lyrics, in these tales of downtrodden souls in pursuit of an elusive salvation.
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May 19, 2014Aldred is in top form here, and with Elliot's help he's unearthed a music box filled with undeniable loveliness, but the songs are as fleeting as they are lustrous; museum pieces without placards.
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UncutMay 12, 2014Aldred's third album as Cherry Ghost is so unashamed in its embrace of the warm croon, the twinkling keyboard, the swelling orchestra and the poignant chorus that its 10 songs might stretch the patience of anyone who wants some jagged edge in their melancholy MOR classicism. [Jun 2014, p.73]
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May 12, 2014This is an album to be enjoyed whilst snuggled up in the arms of the love of your life.
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May 14, 2014Hearing one of these songs by chance would be perfectly inoffensive, but listening to an entire album of them just feels like a chore.