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Minor Love

Adam Green

Minor Love

Sixth helping of offbeat indie pop / rock from the New York singer-songwriter

ADM rating[?]

6.1

Label
Rough Trade
UK Release date
11/01/2010
  1. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A record of succinct pop ditties ... it fits in well with the internet generation ... it fits in well with the elder generation, used to these classical tropes of songwriting
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  2. 8.0 |   The List

    If or when you get over the potentially debilitating vocal stumbling block, some stirringly wonderful songs abound throughout Minor Love
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  3. 8.0 |   The Scotsman

    displays a facility for wit, economy and charm that makes him a likely successor to the sainted Jonathan Richman
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  4. 8.0 |   Q

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  5. 8.0 |   Clash

    A slow-to-excite but masochistically pleasing dark horse of a record, with lyrics that are either muttering fuck-you or fuck-me or fuck-everything
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  6. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Minor Love proves that Adam Green can be thoughtful and he can be nice. What’s more, he wears it well
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  7. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    ..even in its relative seriousness and overall re-tread feeling, Minor Love is perhaps Green's most satisfying work to date
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  8. 7.0 |   NME

    Adam Green’s flowering from puerile anti-folk twonk with The Moldy Peaches to suave lounge-country crooner is laudable
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  9. 7.0 |   The Fly

    ...even when he is stripped down and wittering over a battered acoustic guitar, Adam Green conjures up some of the most compelling quirk- pop songs around
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  10. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    It might not match its wackier predecessors, but Minor Love is an interesting milestone in Green’s increasingly intriguing oeuvre
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  11. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  12. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    For a fourteen-track, thirty-minute album, it drags more than it should, especially towards its last third
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  13. 6.0 |   Spin

    Adam Green tries maturity on for size. It's a good fit, even if you keep waiting for a punch line that never comes
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  14. 6.0 |   FasterLouder

    The arrangements – a mile away from the big-band tracks of 2008’s Sixes and Sevens – are also a nice touch, in all their simplistic nature. Minor Love definitely aims for a less-is-more feel, which is accomplished soundly enough
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  15. 6.0 |   Eye Weekly

    On his sixth album, Minor Love, Green takes the safe route, eschewing his usual dirty words and sexual innuendo for a tamer take on Lower East Side living
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  16. 5.7 |   Pitchfork

    ...the minimalist approach he takes with most of these songs - with their simple constructions and complete lack of production value - confirms an interest in a rawer feel
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  17. 5.0 |   Under The Radar

    Green's angling to be the next Lou Reed. It could work — if Lou Reed had cut his chops cracking fart jokes
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  18. 5.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    ...songs about hotel rooms are always a warning sign of a creative drought
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  19. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    Green’s songs have always been simplistic, but several of Minor Love ’s tracks border on cutesy, with their acoustic guitar and asinine stream-of-consciousness lyrics
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  20. 4.0 |   The Sunday Times

    The songs on Minor Love all start out intriguingly, but never fulfil their potentia
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  21. 4.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  22. 2.0 |   The Independent

    An unappetising blend of selfish slacker slapdash and potty-mouthed arrogance
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