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8.0
1690
8.0 |
musicOMH
Scrubbed up, older and wiser and showing signs of regret for the past. It is a great album but then, so have they all been.
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8.0
1693
8.0 |
Observer Music Monthly
A literate tearjerker that entirely belies the solipsistic self-pity of Doherty's Babyshambles work.
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8.0
1699
8.0 |
Spin
Doherty flits through genres on his first solo album like a nodding junkie discovering what's been buried in his pockets all these years.
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8.0
1700
8.0 |
The Guardian
The result isn't perfect, but it's the first album Doherty has been involved with since the Libertines' debut not to require any special pleading.
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8.0
1705
8.0 |
The Scotsman
The songs are not as immediate as his best work with The Libertines, but the album reveals its wily charms over repeated listens, helped by the sensitive sonic mastery of esteemed Smiths/Blur producer Stephen Street.
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8.0
1706
8.0 |
The Times
For the first time since Doherty's early days in the Libertines, you can hear work in these songs.
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7.0
1697
7.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
Could this really be the same stoned fool posting videos of his chronic duets with his girlfriend a couple of years ago?
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7.0
1698
7.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
Could this really be the same stoned fool posting videos of his chronic duets with his girlfriend a couple of years ago?
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7.0
1691
7.0 |
NME
Less a masterpiece than an escape, a memento of his charisma and charm more than a leap towards new horizons.
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7.0
1687
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Pete Doherty has made a solo album with Stephen Street producing, and the result is some pretty good music. Easiest we leave it on that note.
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6.0
1688
6.0 |
Evening Standard
Mostly low-key strumming and not the stuff to excite anyone beyond his most rabid followers.
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6.0
1685
6.0 |
Blender
Though tabloid fans have long imagined him a rocker, the closest his polite bum comes to tearing loose is when he gives his music-hall skiffle a Dixieland bounce.
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6.0
1692
6.0 |
No Ripcord
A step in the right direction, a sign that maybe all is not lost and he can turn things around yet.
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6.0
1695
6.0 |
PopMatters
While it proves to be slightly uneven and frequently derivative, it is also a sure step forward for a musician who has taken quite a few steps back in recent years.
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6.0
1696
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Doesn't quite have a full batch of tunes here... but for much of the album he manages to make his dysfunction sing.
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6.0
1701
6.0 |
The Independent
Pete's dwindling band of acolytes is going to grow bored with his slim volume of conceits, and the Libertines reunion had better be well in hand when they do.
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6.0
1702
6.0 |
The List
A low-key indie shuffle steeped in Doherty’s love of a mythic England. There are the usual flashes of genius... but it still feels like the best is yet to come from this wayward talent.
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6.0
1703
6.0 |
The Observer
Not the record to cement the former Libertine's position in the rock canon. It's a pretty offering that shunts him up a few places in the seating plan.
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6.0
1707
6.0 |
Uncut
It will, rightly, go a long way to repairing Pete Doherty’s reputation as a singer and songwriter of note. But half of it is a bit boring.
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5.7
1694
5.7 |
Pitchfork
The main problem with Grace/Wastelands-- an absence of memorable songs.
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5.0
1686
5.0 |
Clash
Despite the occasional glimpses of a genuinely mercurial talent... too much of this solo debut treads woefully predictable water.
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5.0
1704
5.0 |
The Quietus
It's nowhere near as bad as the two Babyshambles albums; but then again, very few things are. It's merely a slightly middle-of-the-road record that never quite manages to define what it wants to be.
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4.0
1689
4.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Still has greatness within him. If he spent more than a few snatched minutes working on his art in between orgies of hedonism, we might see it.
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