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8.0
48078
8.0 |
All Music
If his songwriting is a bit uneven, he has an inarguable talent with both lyrics and melodies, and he's a good-to-great singer, sounding soulful and honest on every cut
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8.0
48751
8.0 |
Spin
A mixed bag of eclectic overachievement, boasting a huge stylistic range that, while loaded with flashes of brilliance, might sound better parceled out in pieces than consumed as a whole
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8.0
51295
8.0 |
The Guardian
A particularly modern artisan, he recognises the need to diversify, so while blues remains his core skill, he's also fluent in neo-soul, R&B and psychedelia
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8.0
50405
8.0 |
Uncut
A fresh and invigoratingly take on black music. Print edition only
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7.0
47873
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Clark spreads his musical bets on Blak and Blu. Instead of having one signature sound, he tries a dozen, delving into modern R&B, retro soul, psychedelia and garage rock
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7.0
47875
7.0 |
PopMatters
Blak & Blu certainly isn’t legendary. But it’s a pretty good start
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6.8
47874
6.8 |
Paste Magazine
Clark’s refusal to be pigeonholed as merely a great axman results in a diverse, sometimes confounding record that exhibits a still-evolving oeuvre while still showcasing the chops that got him to this point in his career
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6.0
47876
6.0 |
Blurt
Blak and Blu would better serve as a calling card had he saved some of his more abrupt directional shifts for another EP and played to his most developed strengths
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6.0
47922
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
On his major label debut, Blak and Blu, Clark buckles under the pressure, resulting in 13 tracks of just good blues-rock from a man who has so much more to offer
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6.0
50227
6.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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6.0
50234
6.0 |
Q
One for the future, as much as the past. Print edition only
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6.0
50935
6.0 |
BBC
Overall, this feels more like a fragmented collection of songs than a calculated set. It’s easy to pick favourite tracks
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6.0
51325
6.0 |
The Independent
Large parts of Blak and Blu are spent crooning falsetto soul numbers or cranking out chunky rockers in the vein of the Stones and Bob Seger
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6.0
51357
6.0 |
The Observer
He's more Lenny Kravitz than Robert Cray and mercifully closer to the Black Keys than either
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6.0
51729
6.0 |
Art Rocker
Moments reach infectious highs that alone are striking, but in the context of the whole album feel too divergent to be effective as a unified whole
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