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9.0
54251
9.0 |
Uncut
The Pope of pop is still making the best music of his life
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8.5
57010
8.5 |
Paste Magazine
This work, accompanied by artwork and liner notes from some of the world’s best contemporary artists, is intended to be taken as a whole
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8.2
54495
8.2 |
The AU Review
Van Dyke Parks doesn't fit into any pigeon-hole, and while that makes his music inaccessible to a lot of people, it's also what makes him great
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8.0
54544
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Certainly doesn’t represent all that Van Dyke Parks has to say about the state of the modern world, but the album does manage to assuredly illuminate Parks’ singular artistic vision and his enduring impact on the music of our times
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8.0
54322
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Songs Cycled has everything you’d want from Van Dyke Parks and from an album
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8.0
54223
8.0 |
musicOMH
A wonderfully engaging, fluent and stimulating listen from start to finish
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8.0
54225
8.0 |
The Scotsman
Van Dyke Parks still operates at that unusual point where talent, ambition and eccentricity meet
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7.2
54227
7.2 |
Pitchfork
Some artists run out of ideas; Parks seems to constantly have three more than the typical cognitive load of the human brain allows
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7.0
57238
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
If anyone could nail a dystopian Oklahoma!, this guy could
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7.0
56949
7.0 |
All Music
The impossibly orchestrated compositions on Songs Cycled are constantly unraveling and being wound back in, making them a little bit hard to keep up with at times, but something amazing to behold nonetheless
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6.0
55199
6.0 |
The Irish Times
An album of huge ambitions fully realised
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6.0
54229
6.0 |
The Observer
Aficionados of Parks's highly maverick take on pre-rock songcraft, however, will relish these updates
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6.0
54234
6.0 |
NME
An intriguing curio of a forgotten time
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6.0
54226
6.0 |
The Independent
Behind the rococo charm lurks a subtle emotional power
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6.0
54242
6.0 |
Mojo
It's a joy to hear VDP's mission with the boosted clarity of 21st-centurt production. Print edition only
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6.0
54247
6.0 |
Q
Idiosyncratically engaging vocals and melodies. Print edition only
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4.0
54236
4.0 |
The Digital Fix
Van Dyke Parks isn’t for everyone, and this bizarre collection of music is not going to do anything to change that fact
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3.0
54388
3.0 |
The 405
You can't expect what worked decades ago to work the same now
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