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10.0
96350
10.0 |
The FT
Although roughened by age, his voice remains formidable, still able to grip like a vice with a sudden cry of despair or defiance
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8.2
96542
8.2 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
A fiery indictment of modern affairs, and Waters' best solo album
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8.1
96739
8.1 |
Gig Soup
This album is just as emotional as his greatest work, and perhaps his darkest yet
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8.0
96991
8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Holds its own when placed next to peak-era Floyd
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8.0
96481
8.0 |
All Music
The key player is producer Nigel Godrich, who gives this a sonic richness evoking late-period Pink Floyd without specifically nodding toward any particular record
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8.0
96351
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A long, sprawling epic that stretches out for it’s slightly-padded running time, but one so full of ideas and intricacies that it’s an easy album to get sucked into
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8.0
96346
8.0 |
Q
It's exhilarating in both its fury and its craft. Print edition only
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8.0
96347
8.0 |
Uncut
A final suite of three songs offer a more intimate perspective; a warm, optimistic coda to Waters' apocalyptic reveries. Print edition only
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8.0
96394
8.0 |
The Music
His new solo album sounds inescapably like a modern incarnation of '70s Pink Floyd
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8.0
96421
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
It's precisely what a Trump-era Roger Waters LP should be
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7.5
96425
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Twenty-five years later, the Pink Floyd founder returns when the world needs him most
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7.0
96398
7.0 |
Exclaim
Producer Nigel Godrich, no stranger to helping soundtrack world-weary malaise, keeps Waters in comfortable territory with pianos, string arrangements and acoustic guitars, along with a few unmistakably Floyd-ian arrangements
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6.9
96349
6.9 |
Pitchfork
They don’t take many risks, but Roger Waters presents some of his most focused songs since the mid-’70s
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6.0
98440
6.0 |
PopMatters
Not quite a lost Pink Floyd album, but it gives a sense of what they might sound like now. For sure it’s better than The Endless River and it’s one of the best solo albums by a Pink Floyd member
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6.0
96485
6.0 |
The Observer
The closing suite, starting with Wait for Her, is touchingly honest
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6.0
96727
6.0 |
State
This has been a work that has been a long time coming but in today’s world it feels vital and necessary
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6.0
96391
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
The overall mood of angry disillusionment starts to make him sound like rock’s Harold Pinter
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4.0
96348
4.0 |
Mojo
Too often a combination of slight songcraft and waters' awkward tendency to sound simultaneously angry and platitudinous starts to wear thin. Print edition only
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4.0
96403
4.0 |
The Independent
Nigel Godrich’s production leans too heavily on collaged radio fragments, which tend to swamp the sombre grace that is its most noble characteristic
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