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What Have We Become

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

What Have We Become

A new album from the ex-Beautiful South members, reunited after Abbott left the band in 2000 to care for her son

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Virgin EMI
UK Release date
19/05/2014
US Release date
27/05/2014
  1. 9.0 |   The Digital Fix

    The world with Paul Heaton railing against it seems somehow a better, more livable place
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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    It's the Beautiful South faithful who will rightfully gush over the release, as these antiheroes have lost none of their touch or fatalistic flair
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  3. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    This is one of our best writers and the soul and centre of why he's always mattered so much. Heartily recommended
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  4. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Heaton and Abbott are firing like old on What Have We Become, with elements from The Housemartins – particularly the social commentary - and obviously The Beautiful South evident here. But there’s a real freshness here, too
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  5. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Fans of their often beautiful bickering will be pleased with an LP that is a natural follow up to 2000’s Painting It Red
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  6. 7.0 |   The Music

    Their mix of wry romanticism and sometimes snarky observations still intact
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  7. 6.0 |   The FT

    A genial set of songs with solid melodies, witty lyrics and charming interplay between the two leads
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