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Lord Cut-Glass

Lord Cut-Glass

Lord Cut-Glass

Literate alt-pop on the debut solo album from former Delgados frontman Alun Woodward

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7.5

Label
Chemikal Underground
UK Release date
22/06/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Don't be fooled by first impressions; underneath the livery is a heart of gold. Woodward's honed grasp of musical invention keeps things sonically interesting, while his posturing and backbiting is the sour to go with the sweet. But Lord Cut-Glass is at its best when Woodward's guard is down, revealing the bashful,overgrown boy behind the dashing subterfuge
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  2. 8.0 |   The List

    The album sparkles with orchestral flourishes and even the odd Spaghetti Western soundtrack influence, but most of all its lyrical execution is convincingly spirited
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  3. 8.0 |   The Scotsman

    An album which sounds not unlike an unfettered King Creosote as interpreted by a band of eastern European strolling players. Lord Cut-Glass is an advert for the benefits of playing exactly what you please
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  4. 8.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    Alun Woodward took five years figuring out his next step after The Delgados, and this wonderfully wicked record suggests it has been worth every second… Unconventional yet strangely compromising, one of the year's best.
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  5. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Waltzes give way to mariachi stomps, brass, accordion and strings jostle for space, wry, spat-out lyrics contrast with rococo-folk settings.
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  6. 8.0 |   Uncut

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  7. 6.4 |   Pitchfork

    While Scotland has been known as of late for producing romantic anthem-toters with bleeding hearts and bleeding ears, Woodward is still the kid in the back of the poetry class casting spitballs
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