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Oct 1, 2019Where The Action Is may not be the absolute rave-up the album title implies, but it is a remarkably incisive effort that ought to remind one and all what a singularly important ensemble the Waterboys were… and still remain.
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Jun 25, 2019This is one of the finer works in Scott's lengthy canon, a triumph of atmospheric, poetic, purposely kaleidoscopic songcraft from an often-overlooked master.
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Q MagazineJun 14, 2019Scott's energy and enthusiasm burns as brightly as ever. [Summer 2019, p.116]
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MojoMay 29, 2019Scott continues to ring changes elsewhere, hence the gung-ho title track channels Robert Parker's '60s Mod classic Let's Go Baby (Where The Action Is), and Right Side of Heartbreak (Wrong Side Of Love) brings sweet soul hooks. [Jun 2019, p.91]
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May 29, 2019A judiciously edited forty-some minutes of music that sounds every bit the essence of what the band’s titular leader wanted to say and how he wanted it to sound.
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May 29, 2019'Eclectic' is the word you want to use to describe the sounds on Where the Action Is, but it feels lazy to put a label on an album that moves the listener in every way a person can be moved. But, if you insist, let's file The Waterboys' 13th record in the box marked 'their best for years'. It really is.
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UncutMay 29, 2019The title track's mod R&B struts with the confidence of a band whose last album hit the Top 10. [Jun 2019, p.37]
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May 29, 2019Overall, Where the Action Is is another reliably interesting and well-written addition to the band's latter-day renewal.