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Oct 9, 2015These are only relatively fresh spins on familiar concepts, but presented via an enjoyable framework that proves Green’s still loaded with stimulating ideas.
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Q MagazineOct 27, 2015This is music to get lost in. [Dec 2015, p.106]
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Oct 21, 2015This time around he's found his soul. It's in his phrasing, his rhythms, the occasional Hammond organ punctuation and sultry balladry.
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Oct 13, 2015Most of the songs exceed the four-minute mark and the lack of an obvious single makes If I Should Go Before You feel even more like a single, lovingly crafted entity.
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Kerrang!Oct 9, 2015It is music that asks for patience n an impatient age. [10 Oct 2015, p.52]
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Oct 9, 2015Clearly he is awash with new inspiration, and has absorbed it successfully, because it's hard to recall an artist in recent memory who has revamped their sound so boldly and successfully as City and Colour has on If I Should Go Before You.
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Oct 28, 2015It may all be a little too polished and tasteful for some palates, but for others this is 15 togs of pure aural comfort to wrap yourself in.
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Oct 21, 2015The best thing that can be said for the majority of this record is that it sounds great.... The problem is, Green's songwriting here simply isn't up to par with the artists he's trying to imitate.
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UncutOct 27, 2015The album's languid pace and lack of real bite often renders it a little pedestrian. [Dec 2015, p.69]
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Oct 13, 2015As it is, City and Colour achieve only part of the goal here, that is, to make an album that represents the totality of Green’s one man, overarched vision. That he succeeds even partially is a credit to his willingness to at least try.
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MojoOct 9, 2015At its best--Northern Blues' soulful echo--a bit of Southern grit's rubbed off on the Canadian. [Nov 2015, p.96]
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