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Heavy Love

Duke Garwood

Heavy Love

Fifth album of blues / folk from London-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Heavenly
UK Release date
09/02/2015
US Release date
10/02/2015
  1. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    A bruised catalogue of trouble man meanderings, Heavy Love is soulful, eloquent and deeply affecting
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    The second half of the record sees him abandon the more accessible melodies for a sprawling, stripped-back sound that can be just as foreboding as track titles such as Hawaiian Death Song suggest
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  3. 8.0 |   The Observer

    Recorded in the California desert with Lanegan and Queens of the Stone Age producer Alain Johannes on the mix; there is a new and penetrating heat haze to these reverberating songs
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  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

    It takes a lot of effort to make something so gloriously effortless
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  5. 8.0 |   All Music

    It is easily the most confident, fully realized album in his catalog to date
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  6. 8.0 |   Mojo

    His wolfish voice forever seeking a destination just beyond the dusty horizon. Print edition only

  7. 8.0 |   The 405

    This music has an antique heart and, instead of having lots of modern crap plastered on top of it, it has been lovingly restored
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  8. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    Garwood has created not so much an album as a sonic dream. While you're in it, it's visceral and poignant, but once you're awake it's hard to recall the details
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  9. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    Heavy Love is a fine, if ultimately inessential, summation of what Garwood does best
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  10. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    Heavy Love isn’t the emotional grab bag that the title suggests, but regardless, it’s an affecting effort that leaves a lingering impression
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  11. 6.0 |   Q

    Smokey southern gothic blues. Print edition only

  12. 6.0 |   The Music

    Sees him drift between the light and (mostly) dark parts of the soul, quiet and haunting but again worthy of attention
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