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May 29, 2012While Spirit in the Room matches its predecessor on a track-by-track level, it's only in those last moments that the whole package seems as thematically sound and well designed.
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May 30, 2012It may be time to tinker next time around, but right now he's redeemed an awful lot of himself.
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May 17, 2013Tom Jones is almost 73 years old, is singing as well as he ever has while refusing to conform to his stereotypes, is artistically and perhaps spiritually searching and restless, and is recording perhaps the finest music of his long career.
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MojoJul 18, 2012The grain and gravitas of Jones's voice is perfectly suited to this diverse material. [Jun 2012, p.82]
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May 22, 2012With this album and its predecessor, he has achieved a genuine gravitas and, more importantly, a believable honesty.
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May 21, 2012Cashback? Pretty close.
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Apr 26, 2013If it can’t quite pack the same surprise blindsiding punch of Praise & Blame, it’s now crystal clear that Sir Tom is, almost fifty years along, recording the strongest albums of his career.
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Q MagazineJun 20, 2012He thrives when bringing gravitas to the sparse blues of Soul Of a Man and extraordinary tenderness to the Low Anthem Charlie Darwin. [Jun 2012, p.105]
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May 21, 2013Covers of Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits are good fits; elsewhere, his off the leash vibrato oversells.
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May 21, 2012It's never as rollicking as 2010's Praise and Blame, though a version of Tom Waits' Bad As Me will sound agreeably demented to anyone who's never heard the original.
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May 21, 2012Thankfully, he's well advised: the material is carefully chosen to exploit his abilities.
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May 31, 2012Like the late Johnny Cash, Jones has reinterpreted the venerable songs in a bare, bluesy style. Unlike Cash, he never quite makes them his own.
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May 21, 2012Ultimately, you conclude, Jones's golden voice was built for hooting, hollering and hubba-hubba-ing at the ladies, not mulling things over.
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May 21, 2012The album has to be judged a late-period triumph, even if I am not entirely convinced The Voice's avuncular judge is quite as deep as the material demands.
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UncutMay 21, 2012It doesn't always work, but when it does, it suggests a great artist finding new and surer ground. [Jun 2012, p.77]
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