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  • Summary: The latest full-length studio release for the British singer-songwriter was produced by Dave Izumi and Romeo Stodart.
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
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  1. Nov 2, 2021
    80
    It’s quite something for an artist of Bragg’s age and standing to still remain important and vital but, most of the time on this album, that’s exactly how he sounds.
  2. 80
    Taken in tandem, The Million Things That Never Happened ranks as one of Bragg’s most thoughtful efforts, no small accomplishments considering the remarkable records that came before.
  3. Mojo
    Oct 29, 2021
    80
    An intimate, thematic country-blues-rock set. [Nov 2021, p.93]
  4. Oct 29, 2021
    70
    A charming, timely return.
  5. Nov 5, 2021
    70
    At the age of 63, Billy Bragg is not a young man anymore, and The Million Things That Never Happened reflects that but in a way that reveals new themes and thinking in his lyrics; it's a brave, smart, and effective set of songs.
  6. Uncut
    Oct 29, 2021
    70
    He's honest about uncertainties both personal and political. [Nov 2021, p.25]
  7. 60
    His music has always had as much empathy as it has had political fire, and it’s the former that dominates here. ... It makes for a record that can occasionally get exasperating in its lack of momentum. ... Yet it is also album that leaves plenty of room for nuanced, compassionate songwriting that never loses grip of its sense of empathy.

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  1. Oct 31, 2021
    9
    His strength has always been his ability to mesh the personal with the political, and this duality is once again in abundance here. In MidHis strength has always been his ability to mesh the personal with the political, and this duality is once again in abundance here. In Mid Century Modern, his expression of "self-righteous" political rage is juxtaposed with self-righteousness in a domestic squabble, culminating in the epiphany (while contemplating the "kids that pull the statues down" and how "they challenge me to see") of the distance between the "gap between the man I am and the man I want to be". Expand