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A Coming of Age

Lucky Soul

A Coming of Age

Second album of soul pop from London six-piece

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7.2

Label
Ruffa Lane
UK Release date
19/04/2010
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  1. 9.5 |   Independent on Sunday

    This is the sound of a band switching from black-and-white to colour. One of the albums of the year, hands down
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  2. 9.0 |   The Digital Fix

    Lucky Soul, glorying in the best and brightest that pop music has to offer, are carving diamonds
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    It builds on their strengths but sees them developing that sound in several different directions, showing the way a band can take relatively common templates and breathe life into them
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  5. 6.5 |   Bowlegs

    If their production does come across a little too nondescript at times, their grasp on the all important melody is intact, meaning there is little standing in the way of the London outfit
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  6. 6.4 |   Pitchfork

    Proves once again that well-wrought, traditional melodic narratives packed with handclaps, strings, horns, whoa-oh-ohs, yeah-yeah-yeahs, and heartbreak can succeed without being painstakingly retro or modestly muffled. They only have to connect
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  7. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Frontman Andrew Laidlaw is of the melancholy-lyrics/joyously-uplifting-music school of songwriting
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  8. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

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