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World Wide Rebel Songs

The Nightwatchman

World Wide Rebel Songs

Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello's third outing as The Nightwatchman, a blues / rock / folk protest album

ADM rating[?]

5.3

Label
New West
UK Release date
29/08/2011
US Release date
30/08/2011
  1. 8.0 |   Paste Magazine

    The songs are visceral, potent, raw. Everything a revolution should be
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  2. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Includes Rage-style agit-metal and a folk rocker where Iraq soldiers take out their commanders
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  3. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    From start to finish, you are in Morello’s world. It can be dark. It can be cheery. But most of all, it’s his
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  4. 6.0 |   Blurt

    Rebels in search of a cause will likely share sympathy for Morello's fervent muse
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  5. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Each track feels like a belligerent battlecry and a call to arms
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  6. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    Too much of a mixed bag, blaring hard rock on one track, then walking a bass line with chimes on another, then playing solo folk for which this project’s always been known
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  7. 5.0 |   Rave Magazine

    He’s not Rage Against The Machine, and he can’t get away with writing preachy, political songs without them feeling preachy
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  8. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A veritable jumble sale of an album and one that lacks any sense of pace or cohesion, instead settling for sheer eclecticism
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  9. 5.0 |   Spin

    Fearlessly tangoes betwixt the admirable and the absurd
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  10. 4.0 |   The Skinny

    It feels too unfocused and patchy to fully ignite real righteous indignation
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  11. 4.0 |   NME

    There's no bounce or groove to make you give a shit. Print edition only

  12. 2.5 |   A.V. Club

    The song’s lyrics, like its music, never dip into anything resembling substance or depth
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