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Electric Arguments

The Fireman

Electric Arguments

The third batch of experiments between Paul McCartney and producer Youth

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6.4

Label
One Little Indian
UK Release date
24/11/2008
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  1. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    It is heartening to see one of our national treasures still pushing the boundaries. Long may he continue.
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  2. 8.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    Paul McCartney likes to remind the world that he hasn't just been cute, he's also been cutting edge.
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  3. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Sir Paul revives his low-profile, weed-scented collaboration with superproducer Youth (U2, the Orb). It's freak folk by a forefather.
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  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Depending on which Paul McCartney you like the most, you may or may not like what he’s done. But the best thing about Electric Arguments is that it sounds like the work of someone who doesn’t give a stuff what people are going to think.
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  5. 7.5 |   Daily Telegraph

    Explodes out of the margins with a satisfyingly organic, rocky new direction.
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  6. 7.3 |   Pitchfork

    Given McCartney's long-standing efforts to assert that he - not John - was the most avant-garde Beatle, the Fireman thus serves a purpose... to get its primary songwriter back to where he once belonged.
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  7. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Electric Arguments does harbor its own unique charm that will certainly appeal to longtime fans moreover than Macca’s previous pair of Fireman jaunts.
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  8. 7.0 |   Spin

    The third album-length collabo under the Fireman moniker by Paul McCartney and former Killing Joke bassist/Orb member/Verve producer Martin Glover (a.k.a. Youth) features the cute one's wiggiest work in decades.
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  9. 6.0 |   Clash

    Experimental loops collide with bluesy wails, country singalongs and New Order beats…
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  10. 4.0 |   The Quietus

    The album’s peaks are marked with the sound of McCartney coming well out of his comfort zone and back in to the arena of experimentation. And yet... and yet... the highs outweigh the lows by some considerable margin.
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  11. 2.0 |   The Guardian

    There is pompous, ponderous old-man blues; there is the sort of stadium rock cliche better left to fester in the 80s; there are pan pipes.
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