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- Summary: The latest album for the Irish musician who also contributed to a variety of film soundtracks, including "Ocean's Eleven" and its sequels.
- Record Label: Universal
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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UncutIt's the personal element that underpins this record's appeal. [Oct 2008, p.92]
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It's a little less brazen, a little more personal but it fits together as a listen-start-to-finish endeavor as well if not better than any of his previous works and that is testament indeed.
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Q Magazine'I Heard Wonders' and the title track are standouts, blissed-out epics suggestive of U2 tangling with 'The Jesus And Mary Chain,' while instrumentals 'Story Of The Ink' and 'Theme/IMC' radiate desolate beauty. [Oct 2008, p.147]
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Holmes' decision to debut his own breathy, vulnerable vocals enhances the dusky intimacy: the bewitching sense of a previously elusive producer venturing something of himself.
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Add in the highly personal genesis of its composition, easily audible in both lyrics and melodies, and the listener's satisfaction is complete.
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The Holy Pictures turns out to be very much a soundtrack--but one in which heart and mind prove to be as inspiring a source as any script Hollywood throws at him.
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MojoInstrumentals with texture and surface but not much substance make the LP trail off in a sequence make the LP trail off in a sequence of audio watercolours possibly in need of a big screen and some diverting pictures. [Nov 2008, p.112]
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