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Q MagazineNov 15, 2016Sande's second album doesn't always sound quite so revelatory [as her debut]: anguished intensity often masks a lack of musical spark, the draggy acoustic trawl of Give Me Something sounding like her namesake Adele at her least bothered. She is much more engaging when she operates at full-grown throttle. [Jan 2017, p.113]
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Nov 15, 2016Too much of Long Live the Angels just feels turgid.
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Nov 14, 2016A repetitive wash of acoustic guitars and consoling choirs dull the emotion, and Sandé is too polite to go for the jugular.
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Nov 11, 2016Sandé clearly has the chops to stand out in the sophisticated cross-platform arms race of modern pop music--the soaring ‘Shakes’ and ‘Sweet Architect’ are proof of that--but you still wish she didn’t fall back so readily on cliché.
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Nov 10, 2016Parts of this album creep even closer to the middle of the road: whisper-to-a-scream ballads such as Happen are interesting only for their vastness.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 37 out of 48
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Mixed: 4 out of 48
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Negative: 7 out of 48
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Nov 19, 2021Not as great as Version of Events but still beautiful. Emeli has pipes that take us elsewhere!