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Bow To Love

Isobel Campbell

Bow To Love

Sixth solo album from the former Belle & Sebastian member and Mark Lanegan collaborator

ADM rating[?]

6.4

Label
Cooking Vinyl
UK Release date
31/05/2024
US Release date
31/05/2024
  1. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    A collection of cool, breezy pop songs underlaid with unexpected steel, here lies soothing balm for a troubled world
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  2. 7.6 |   Spectrum Culture

    Maintaining a career on the musical fringes, glimpses of new approaches begin to emerge
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  3. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Sometimes leans into apparently clichéd sentiments on “Keep Calm Carry On”, “Do Or Die”, the Buddhism-evoking “Om Shanti Om” or even her gossamer-soft cover of Dire Straits’ “Why Worry”, her whispery vocal style, often accompanied by plucked acoustic guitar and understated strings, still captivates. Print edition only

  4. 6.0 |   Mojo

    There's much to applaud about Bow To Love as Campbell targets toxic masculinity (Everything Falls Apart) and the distancing, dehumanising aspects of social media (4316), but you sometimes feel only the shallows of her rhyming dictionary are being plumbed. Print edition only

  5. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Opiated float-music, smeared to an often delicious gentleness
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  6. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    The Glasgow indie staple reckons with the modern world in thoughtful, if slight, fashion
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