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Jun 25, 2018If you have just enough residual idealism that you think you might enjoy even a temporary respite from our collective growl in 2018, Passwords feels a bit like one of those Records We Could Use Right Now. .. It turns out, he makes about as good a re-enfranchised romantic as he did a disappointed one.
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Jun 25, 2018As dark as Goldsmith gets on Passwords, he remains hopeful, even romantic, summoning images of Romeo and Juliet and "Cusack holding that stereo" on the tender love song "Never Gonna Say Goodbye." It's that bittersweet message of hope for humanity on Passwords that resonates the strongest.
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MojoJun 25, 2018A beautifully honed vision of an often-harsh landscape. [Aug 2018, p.89]
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Classic Rock MagazineJun 25, 2018Passwords is full of lustrous folk, as on My Greatest Invention and I Can't Love, with the odd innocuous AOR moment, though there's hidden bite. [Summer 2018, p.89]
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UncutJun 25, 2018The ballads are typically wry and pretty, however, especially the Christopher Cross-alike "Crack The Case," through "Feed The Fire" might have benefited from more rigorous editing. [Aug 2018, p.26]
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Jun 29, 2018Its intentions are noble. Yet the album’s sentiments are often bogged down by cloying lyrics and worn-out arrangements. At times, the music feels conspicuously out of character for a band that has historically made tactful, if occasionally bland, rock’n’roll.
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Jun 25, 2018Dawes’ latest may well sound fresh and new, or at least vaguely soulful, if you don’t know it’s a retread, but Passwords is all too easy to crack, and what’s inside isn’t really worth protecting when others have been doing it all better for decades.