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Apr 23, 2012Through '70s power pop and honey-soaked, AM radio vocals, Benson offers a worthy argument to view him as a peer rather than a protégé to Mr. White.
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Apr 23, 2012The romantic air around the self-defeating, love-seeking male feels out of place for a songwriter of Benson's talent and maturity, and as a result What Kind of World falls well short of being the kind of great pop record it could be.
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Q MagazineApr 24, 2012Makes a perfect case for music as therapy. [May 2012, p.91]
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Apr 23, 2012A strangely rockist album that ignores the importance of hooks and melodies and then makes the mistake of equating lo-fi production with seriousness.
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Apr 24, 2012Polished, tuneful, and utterly unmemorable.
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Apr 19, 2012What Kind of World won't cause the goodwill to dry up, but it never reaches the heights of 2002's Lapalco, still Benson's high-water mark.
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UncutApr 20, 2012Benson's fifth solo album rarely deviates from his established modus operandi. [May 2012, p.67]