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- Summary: The ex-Husker Du singer moves away from the electronic sounds of his more recent releases and returns to the guitar stylings he played 20 years ago.
- Record Label: Anti
- Genre(s): Rock
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Top Track
| I'm Sorry, Baby, But You Can't Stand In My Light Any More | |
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| I’m sorry, baby, but you can’t stand in my light any more you’re moving back to the shadows I can’t fight this any more I tried to heal you,... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 17
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Mixed: 7 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Reminiscing on lost love and lust, Mould impresses with his songwriting skills.
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UncutA grown-up record that hints at a more excitable wayward past. [May 2009, p.91]
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As immediate as Life and Times isn't nearly as diamond-hard as "Copper Blue," which is a great part of its appeal: it flows naturally, the music never pushes, it settles, comfortable in its own skin.
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The miserable bastard can still write melodies that make the medicine go down, and ultimately, that's his redemption.
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Life And Times is unchallenging pap. But it's furnished with the odd line of lyrical craftiness and melodies that, on the whole, manage to keep the stabilisers on his career because (as always) they make the seemingly untenable emotions of their writer sound tolerable.
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The storm of guitars here is proof enough that he's still alive and kicking.
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Q MagazineToo much of the material is ponderous and plodding. [Jun 2009, p.128]
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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EEApr 8, 2009
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