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- Summary: The sophomore album for ex-Comets on Fire frontman is the first jointly released on Birdman and Rick Rubin's American label.
- Record Label: American/Birdman
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 17
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Mixed: 5 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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This album is a feast for the uninitiated.
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It's easy to hear why Rubin swooped in to release this.
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Magnificent Fiend follows up the band’s self-titled 2006 debut in powerful style, fashioning a blend of hard blues, herb-smoke-encrusted rock, country-tinged folk and swinging, blue-eyed soul.
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Everyone who likes Howlin Rain’s sound will come away from Magnificent Fiend wanting more. At just eight tracks, it’s a rare full length that doesn’t seem full enough.
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Under The RadarThis is good, old-time rock and roll, beer in hand and completely earnest. [Winter 2008, p.82]
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It's not until Magnificent Fiend's closing trio of seven-minute behemoths that Howlin Rain find traction, though it's the band's willingness to tweak its grand appropriations, rather than the tracks' epic lengths, that helps the songs stick.
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Q MagazineMagnificent Fiend recycles a lot of hairy late-'60s/early '70s rock moves. [June 2008, p.149]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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SaviS.Mar 19, 2008Please, please listen the guitar solo at the end of Lord Have Mercy, it's beautiful!
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DavidB.Apr 6, 2008A good-sounding album, but it's nothing new or original.
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