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Q MagazineAug 28, 2018He's retained much of his fizz, but his new, relatively thoughtful, air means that the piano-led The Bruiser exudes a heap of rue and regret, while the autobiographical Mississippi Delta toasts a bright new future in a bright new place, something this album cements. [Oct 2018, p.116]
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Aug 22, 2018This is a fitting debut for a man who to many needs no introduction.
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MojoAug 20, 2018There are nods to Scissor Sisters with some honky-tonk disco and references to the demi-monde. But there are also extraordinary tracks of looped beats and grainy heartbreak. [Oct 2018, p.84]
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Aug 10, 2018While refusing to close the doors on the synth-pop sound so synonymous with Scissor Sisters, Jake Shears also stands out as a progression; call it the same dance up a different street.
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Aug 10, 2018Whatever happens next, Shears has certainly delivered one of the year’s most welcome and infectious comeback albums.
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Aug 10, 2018The result overflows with the opulence of orchestral Seventies pop--as if ELO and the Bee Gees got together to make a Muppet fantasia of Cajun rock.
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Entertainment WeeklyAug 13, 2018If the album sometimes feels more like a broadcast from some long-lost AOR radio frequency than its own fresh story, it's also just fun: a joyride reminder that newer dogs can pull off old tricks, too. [17/24 Aug 2018, p.97]
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Aug 10, 2018Jake Shears is a breeze, with members of My Morning Jacket and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band gathering to lay down the tracks in single takes. The result is pretty irresistible, as long as you’re not looking for authenticity, and if you don’t mind vocals that sound like a honky-tonk take on jazz hands deployed in the service of lyrics like “Cuz baby I love you/More than the trash can.”
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UncutAug 14, 2018If there are few surprises, the tracks are charming, well crafted and kept to a fighting-trim 11. [Sep 2018, p.36]
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Aug 14, 2018As befits a self-titled album, all the moves Shears makes--both familiar and new--feel true to him. Funny, flashy, and not so secretly recovering from heartbreak, Jake Shears is one of the tightest sets of music he's made.