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8.0
140816
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Mike Scott isn’t telling us the story of the Hollywood bad boy’s life so much as allowing us to experience it for ourselves
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8.0
140833
8.0 |
Mojo
The hit rate is high, and Mike Scott is clearly having fun cutting himself free from The Waterboys' past, and playing fast and loose - much like the mercurial subject of this album. Print edition only
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8.0
140834
8.0 |
Uncut
In the end, it comes down to little moments of bliss, and those seven or eight words. "I don't know how I made it" Scott sings, as Taylor Goldsmith essays an angelic harmony. "but I made it". As a funeral march, it's a humdinger. Print edition only
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7.5
140848
7.5 |
Under The Radar
Experience Life, Death and Dennis Hopper and step into the bloody boots of a lesser-recognized American legend—and who better to guide you than The Waterboys, whose tendency toward eccentricity, excess, and defiant experimentalism render them luminescent mutant offspring of their subject?
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7.0
140804
7.0 |
Clash
There is so much to unpack here across a myriad of styles from jazz to folk and blues but it all seems to fit the subject at its heart, Dennis Hopper. It may not all work but when it does it is mesmerising
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6.0
140873
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
It's sometimes entertaining, sometimes preposterous, and sometimes pure cringe
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5.0
140803
5.0 |
musicOMH
Mike Scott has made a 25-track album covering the cult actor’s life, and there’s even a song for each of his five wives. You may want to keep his Wiki open
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