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10.0
41980
10.0 |
Mojo
Spontaneous yet crafted, both ludicrous and understated, One Day I'm Going to Soar isn't always an easy listen, but it does offer a fearless experience that invests pop with more theatricality than the form can normally tolerate. Print edition only
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10.0
42328
10.0 |
Independent on Sunday
The soul album of the century. It might yet turn out to be the album of the year
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10.0
42353
10.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
This is a simply glorious new album from the one-time young soul rebels who, 27 years on from their last album, have absorbed the lessons, licked the wounds and fused Stax revue with music hall storytelling
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10.0
42485
10.0 |
The Digital Fix
ODGTS is a riot, a bravura performance, a circus of colour, invention, magic, wit, magic. It tests the limits of pop with haughty disregard for tired convention. We may never see its like again
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9.0
41939
9.0 |
BBC
There is so much personality, poetry, vulnerability and resilience here that most other records sound like dry runs by comparison
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9.0
41949
9.0 |
Uncut
It might just be the best record of the year, and the best of Rowland's career. "Unlikely comeback" does not do this extraordinary comeback justice
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9.0
61085
9.0 |
PopMatters
Give this a listen and then work backwards through the rest of their catalogue. You’ll be rewarded
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8.5
42295
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Idiosyncratic throughout, intangibly glorious for its faults, Dexys’ unique place is sealed and complete
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8.0
42305
8.0 |
The Fly
Finds Rowland weary, woozy and nakedly accepting of loneliness and age; a true soul man
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8.0
42309
8.0 |
Evening Standard
He proudly wears his heart on his sleeve, hoping to leave our hearts in our mouths
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8.0
42321
8.0 |
The Independent
The confessional, autobiographical elements that are its strongest aspect also serve as its Achilles' heel: the whole enterprise depends on how fascinated the listener is with Rowland's psych
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8.0
41959
8.0 |
Q
If Rowland's voice doesn't skip and jump as it did, the trade-off for his loss of nimbleness is a richness in writing. Print edition only
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8.0
42602
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
A record that manages to combine fresh new stories with the heart and nervous energy of classic Dexys
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8.0
41938
8.0 |
musicOMH
The end result is a striking resilience of concept, style and approach, evidence that it is Rowland’s controlling hand that still very much defines Dexys
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8.0
42351
8.0 |
The Scotsman
Although One Day… doesn’t always soar, there is much to revel in here – the vim of the violins, the brio in the brass, the personality in Rowland’s vocals
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7.0
42145
7.0 |
NME
It all suggests a promising future for the reinvigorated band
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7.0
43379
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
An accomplished piece of work
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6.7
42747
6.7 |
Pitchfork
An idiosyncratic, brave record, and nobody else is likely to make one much like it. It's sharp, thought-out down to the briefest note, and, astonishingly given the 27 year gap, it fits naturally into the Dexys story
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6.0
42372
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
There is a plot, and it doesn’t so much thicken as curdle
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6.0
42330
6.0 |
The Observer
Songs such as Me and It's OK John Joe find him offering up trademark asides in between elegant examinations of the male psyche
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6.0
43784
6.0 |
State
An intelligent, moving album with a beginning, an end, and not much of a middl
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4.0
42279
4.0 |
Drowned In Sound
You want that urgent, primal soul yell that made Dexys so compelling and brilliant and exciting. And they just haven’t got it here
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