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Building a Beginning

Jamie Lidell

Building a Beginning

A self-released seventh album from the English soul singer based in Nashville, Tennessee

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6.6

Label
Self-released
UK Release date
14/10/2016
US Release date
14/10/2016
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  1. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    Loose yet precise, the elaborate instrumentation on Building A Beginning swings on a funky groove throughout
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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    Relatively old-school, often hewing close to gospel-tinged Southern soul
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Bursts with love. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Lidell wrote the lyrics with his wife, and they’re full of earnest declarations of how valuable their bond is
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  5. 8.0 |   Mixmag

    We’re a long way from Super Collider, but there’s really not a duff card in the pack
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  6. 7.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    Lidell belongs in the grand tradition of British blue-eyed soul singers enamored of American soul and R&B
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  7. 6.5 |   Under The Radar

    While the familiar is always comforting, Lidell is a tinkerer at heart who thrives on mixing and matching styles and sounds
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  8. 6.2 |   Pitchfork

    Jamie Lidell unplugs his laptop for the most conventional R&B album of his career.
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  9. 6.0 |   DIY

    The album never veers too far from its central palette; it plays more like Lidell rifling through the soul influences that have been with him for much of his career
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  10. 6.0 |   The Music

    One of his most touching moments to date
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  11. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    He may not live up to the LP’s title and build a new beginning for himself, but, for those who never asked him to change in the first place, that’s no great failure
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  12. 6.0 |   Q

    Proving that when it comes to expressing deep emotions, less is frequently more. Print edition only

  13. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Most of the enjoyment here comes from simply listening to Lidell at work
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  14. 4.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    For an alleged new beginning, the record only trades up in affect
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