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- Summary: This first solo disc in eight years for the former Birthday Party and Bad Seeds member mixes covers with two Harvey originals.
- Record Label: Mute
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Positive: 4 out of 7
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Mixed: 3 out of 7
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The collection of emotionally brutal songs found on One Man's Treasure is delivered with the vision of a cowboy looking at life through the bottom of a glass of whisky.
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This is an album of varied pleasures: it doesn't grab you by the scruff of the neck but it pulls insistently at your arm until you have to take notice.
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With this outing, Harvey establishes himself not only as a fine composer, but as a songwriter.
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It's not quite as engaging as Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, but in a pinch it will do.
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Q MagazineHarvey's voice is not worthy of heavyweight songwriting. Still, when the songs are lighter, he succeeds. [Oct 2005, p.117]
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MojoMaybe all originals next time? [Sep 2005, p.89]
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UncutA moody and restrained affair. [Oct 2005, p.108]
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