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When Timeless succeeds, it's beautiful, boundary-breaking music.
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Timeless is a mixed bag, but it's not because of Mendes. His own playing and arranging is utterly elegant.
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Someone mistakenly told Will that his talent deserved to be showcased more than the other guest artists on this album, and it winds up turning what could have been a fantastic genre cross-pollination experiment into a slightly better than average album almost ruined by a guy who needs someone to tell him to stay on the other side of the microphone a little more.
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Q MagazineWhen samba's beat is uppermost, the music takes off. [May 2006, p.129]
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MojoA solo album with not enough of the soloist. [Jun 2006, p.102]
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It's a well-produced disc, but the cavalcade of stars and cartoonish beats make the songs sound more dated than the originals.
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Paste MagazineTimeless sounds like a pop-charts-and-trends magazine exploded in the studio. [Apr/May 2006, p.115]
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Timeless falls awkwardly between Buena Vista Social Club and Santana’s latter-day Rolodex albums, deftly combining multi-culti good intentions with the bathos of a great artist aiming squarely at commercial revival.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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Negative: 3 out of 13
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Aug 9, 2015
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ChrisMay 3, 2006The mix of artists and styles in such an effective way is reminiscent Carlos Santana's multi-Grammy winning Supernatural CD.
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DanielSApr 1, 2006