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Alexander

Alexander

Alexander

Debut solo acoustic venture from Alexander Ebert, aka Edward Sharpe of the Magnetic Zeros

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6.8

Label
Vagrant
UK Release date
28/02/2011
US Release date
01/03/2011
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  1. 8.0 |   Uncut

    "Alexander" isn't far off great. Print edition only

  2. 8.0 |   Q

    An album that's playful and dewy-eyed, without being juvenile. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    There's a master at work here and if he finds his filter he'll no doubt lose some of that fairy dust
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  4. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    If an artist losing and attempting to reclaim their identity provokes the writing and performance of music as good as this, maybe it ought to happen more often
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  5. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Perfectly pleasant but far from spectacular, it seeks permission to entertain rather than boldly intervening
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  6. 6.5 |   BBC

    Ultimately Alexander is too diffused to have much identity as a body of work beyond ‘folky’
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  7. 6.5 |   Bowlegs

    With Alexander, you have to take the rough with the smooth
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  8. 6.0 |   The Digital Fix

    The work of someone spreading themselves just a little thin
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  9. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    To be shelved alongside Devendra Banhart and Blitzen Trapper, Alexander is tenderly understated
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  10. 5.9 |   Pitchfork

    Equal parts charming and trying, unequal parts soul and rock and folk, it's an album that's as easy to love as it is to hate
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