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Cosmo Jarvis
- Record Label: The Middle Ground
- Release Date: Oct 11, 2011
- Summary: This is the second album for the American-born and UK-based singer-songwriter.
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- Record Label: The Middle Ground
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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| Gay Pirates | |
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| This water is too salty, For me to even drink. I'd rather walk the dreaded plank Than stay another week. But it's you my love You're my land... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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Oct 26, 2011A wacky, emotionally resonant collection of songs with the best kind of musical ADHD out there.
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Oct 26, 2011Strange or otherwise, this is an intriguing but confused curate's egg of an album that will probably delight as many people as it repels.
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Oct 26, 2011Jarvis finds his stride when singing about the uncomfortable.
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Mar 7, 2012This is by no stretch a perfect album, but is one of the most imaginative and far-reaching ones you're likely to hear from an ostensibly mainstream pop artist this year.
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Oct 26, 2011Is the World Strange or Am I? is indeed a little too strange to achieve the commercial success Jarvis has admitted he craves, but it's an admirably bold statement of intent which is perhaps unlike anything else you'll hear all year.
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Q MagazineDec 14, 2011It's his intermittent, embarrassing rapping [that is the problem]. [Oct 2011, p.113]
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Oct 26, 2011[A] perplexing and risible album.
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