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Morrissey
Make-Up Is A Lie
Morrissey’s Make-Up Is a Lie is a love letter to Paris: schmaltzy, befuddling, arresting, but, most of all, HIM
PopMatters
Morrissey
Make-Up Is A Lie
The singer’s 14th album shows signs of progress and signs of regression, artful touches and leaden songwriting—it’s a new Morrissey album
Pitchfork
Harry Styles
Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.
The decaf dance-pop on Harry Styles’ fourth album is just unremarkable. Even songs about the emptiness of pop stardom succumb to tasteful restraint
Pitchfork
Harry Styles
Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.
His charisma and star power remain resolutely undimmed, but this muted and downbeat album offers little immediate with which to grab the attention
musicOMH
Squeeze
Trixies
The U.K. pop heroes take a few steps backwards, reviving a song cycle they first conceived in the mid-1970s
All Music
Squeeze
Trixies
Shows them off as precocious teens but lyrically naïve
The Arts Desk
Squeeze
Trixies
Squeeze were always ambitious, although never at the expense of fun. Trixies is imaginative, impressive, and most importantly, fun
PopMatters
Squeeze
Trixies
This concept album, conceived in the ’70s, presents the sound of one of the best bands in Britain who have reached the early morning hours and are ready to go again
musicOMH
Squeeze
Trixies
Squeeze’s first new album in nearly a decade is based on material written when they were teenagers. It’s endearing but callow
The Guardian
Squeeze
Trixies
Trixie’s bears many of the hallmarks the group would, a few years later, become celebrated for. Several hooks and melodies offer up the kind of earworms that helped establish Squeeze as one of the UK’s most dependable and radio-friendly singles bands, and there is already an astonishing maturity to Difford’s lyrics, often taking the form of poignant character studies
Record Collector
Squeeze
Trixies
With their abundance of charm and good cheer, the performances ensure the patchier numbers still satisfy. More genuinely impressive are "You Get The Feeling" and "Hell On Earth", corkers that demonstrate the creative chemistry that was there since moment one. Print edition only
Uncut
Squeeze
Trixies
Revived and newly recorded, Difford and Tilbrook’s pre-fame project might be the best work of their caree
Mojo
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