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Q MagazineNov 13, 2014While he's lost more of his craft, he's rarely sounded so at ease with himself. [Dec 2014, p.109]
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UncutNov 11, 2014Co-producers Don Was and Jacknife Lee bring an Orbisonian scale to Melody Road, surrounding him with ornate yet tasteful arrangements worked up by LA's top session cats. [Dec 2014, p.75]
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Oct 20, 2014What makes a difference here is the general lightness of his new songs and Was and Lee's sympathetic production; the two play off each other perfectly, turning this into the first latter-day Diamond record to feel quintessentially Neil Diamond.
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Oct 21, 2014There are no duds on his first all-new album since 2008--just 12 stripped down soft-rock tracks, not too heavy on the strings, hitting consistently hard whether Diamond plays the winsome crooner ("Something Blue") or the bummed-out belter ("Alone at the Ball").
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Oct 20, 2014Are these new tunes likely to move arena audiences in the same way? Nah. But Diamond sings as though they will. He's still a believer.
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Mar 8, 2019I love this album and consider it under-appreciated. It gets listened to more than any other ND album I have.