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- Summary: Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown returns with his third solo album, following 2000's 'Golden Greats.' The first single is "F.E.A.R."
- Record Label: Polydor
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Positive: 2 out of 7
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Mixed: 5 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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The production is perfect - not too cluttered, lush, beats melting beautifully into the now-understated guitar - and his vocals are warm and unpresuming.
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MojoSomewhere in there Brown's murmurous vocals and the lyrics tend to get lost. [Sep 2001, p.99]
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Musically it is by far and away his most complete offering but some cracks do show.
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Lacking the strangely compelling shambolic glory of his first solo album Unfinished Monkey Business and the crisper soul-warrior posing of second solo set Golden Greats, this album isn't going to fulfill Brown's hopes of bettering The Stone Roses' debut.
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No song is quite right: a lyric about angels or elephants here, a trip-hop beat there, and even the Milky Way would blush.
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An improvement over his lo-fi solo debut and his over-produced second disc, but it misses as often as it hits.
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You can see the Angel/Heaven/Cocaine lyrics coming a mile off and the predictable bass that punctuates them soon becomes just as banal.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 7
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Mixed: 0 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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martinkMar 12, 2004a beautiful piece
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MauricioB.Sep 4, 2002a great album with amazing sounds!!!!!!!!!!! the rate does not pass 10 ill certainly give 12!!
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Jul 15, 2022I'd give this masterpiece a 20/10, but since we've been limited to 10 only, I'll settle for 10 then.
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AntonioCOct 26, 2005Magnificent,
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jamesaMar 2, 2006long live king monkey
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[Anonymous]Jun 28, 2006bang on baby
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aaronwFeb 6, 2004
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