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- Summary: The debut album from the country-folk artist takes the unadorned simplicity of acoustic guitar and emotional vocals to create bittersweet songs of love, hate and life.
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- Record Label: Mute
- Genre(s): Country, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Top Track
Sweetheart I Ain't Your Christ | |
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I ain't your Saviour or your Christ, or your goddamn sacrifice And when I said I'd give my life, I weren't talking suicide And I'm so tired of tryin'... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 13 out of 18
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Mixed: 5 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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UncutMar 29, 2011Josh Pearson has gone there so we don't have to--we should be grateful he's returned to tell the tale. [Apr 2011, p.72]
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Mar 23, 2011Once you press play on this wonderful record, Josh T. Pearson will take you with him. It might be painful, but you will savour every tear and be thankful for the bruises. Be greatful for this dark pariah.
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Mar 23, 2011Pearson's mournful growl, and the brutal honesty in raking over his personal failings, makes for a majestic, in-the-dead-of-the-night confessional.
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Jun 21, 2011This solo debut is as commanding: emotional trial ("Woman, When I've Raised Hell") and despair ("Country Dumb") stripped to Pearson's fraught vocals and hypnotic, irregular fingerpicking.
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Mar 29, 2011Gorgeous as much as it is terrifyingly heartbreaking, it's Country Gentlemen's ominous open-ended silence that unnerves most of all.
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Apr 5, 2011To have four songs over 10 minutes on your debut is brave; when the record recalls Neil Young's sadder moments and explores the anguish of a break-up, it is foolhardy.
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Apr 5, 2011There's nothing truly transgressive or illuminating or innovative about Last of the Country Gentlemen.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Apr 6, 2012
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