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10.0
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10.0 |
The Guardian
A five-star tour through new sounds
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9.1
87525
9.1 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Appreciating this music won’t get you any cool points. But that’s the test, isn’t it?
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9.0
87603
9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
As fresh and relevant as anything currently being mass-consumed by the market, and the things it forces you to think about are far more important than most of the topics that are being fed to us by the industry
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8.9
87528
8.9 |
Paste Magazine
Without a doubt, Stranger to Stranger is a testament to an artist who refuses to be ordinary and pigeonholed. With this LP, Paul Simon has created his best work in many years
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
He's choosing to push forward, not look back, and the results are invigorating
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8.0
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8.0 |
Evening Standard
A breezy tropical beat and the air of a master messing about
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8.0
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8.0 |
The FT
Bookended by songs about night fears: not the sign of a senior statesman resting on his laurels
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8.0
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8.0 |
The 405
This is simply a fantastic album
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8.0
87607
8.0 |
Mojo
Aged 75, Paul Simon releases one of his most ground-breaking albums. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
Spotlighting a voice still bell-like at 74 and with plenty to say. Print edition only
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
The New York poet is as wryly funny and musically inventive as ever on his 13th solo LP
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8.0
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8.0 |
State
To paraphrase the man himself when at times words desert him, music is the tongue he speaks. And my how he speaks
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Irish Times
Profound and searching
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8.0
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The Observer
Still creative after all these years
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8.0
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8.0 |
PopMatters
God, wristbands and swear words: Paul Simon's latest reminds us why he's so essential
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Paul Simon has a brilliant songbook in his rearview mirror and he just keeps adding to it without looking back too much
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Music
Thirteen albums into his solo career, Paul Simon's latest release will go down as one of his finest
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7.5
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7.5 |
Beardfood
He still creates characters (‘Street Angel’, ‘In A Parade’) but they’re rooted in the random nature of real life, not contrived
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7.5
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7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
In a year marked by loss, the legend's latest is a glaring bright spot for classic rock fans
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7.2
87641
7.2 |
Pitchfork
Arguably the best album of Paul Simon's uneven post-Graceland solo career
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7.0
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7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Stranger to Stranger’s effect is most potent when there’s some interplay between a complex, danceable groove and a salient philosophical offering
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7.0
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7.0 |
Clash
Although uncompromising in it’s vision and delivery, ‘Stranger To Stranger’ ultimately, serves as another fine testament to Simon’s craft and ingenuity as a songwriter
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6.0
87646
6.0 |
Spin
Simon’s lyrics are occasionally at their darkest (and best) since his ill-fated Capeman musical in 1998
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