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8.3
99963
8.3 |
A.V. Club
On As You Were, Liam Gallagher proves that brashness is justified
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8.0
99915
8.0 |
Q
The album’s score-settling menace gives it a thrilling sense of purpose. Print edition only
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8.0
99916
8.0 |
Mojo
It’s by some stretch the best Liam-fronted outing in two decades. Print edition only
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8.0
99912
8.0 |
NME
Welcome back Liam – never leave us again
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8.0
99962
8.0 |
All Music
The best post-Oasis album from either Gallagher to date
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7.5
99954
7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Liam Gallagher isn’t fucking around on As You Were, and it shows
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7.0
99944
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
If the album is a few steps shy of his old band's best, it has Gallagher writing like he means it and singing like his dream isn't over
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7.0
99949
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Finds the singer sounding as self-assured and focused as someone with a string of records under their own banner
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7.0
99917
7.0 |
Uncut
Solidly crafted but with few surprises. Print edition only
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7.0
99909
7.0 |
PopMatters
Sees Liam Gallagher far surpassing even the most hopeful of expectations
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7.0
99911
7.0 |
The Music
Not a departure from Gallagher's oeuvre and screams solipsism at times. Yet still marks his high point since Oasis' 2009 implosion and is strong enough to suit the current '90s revival just fine
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7.0
100247
7.0 |
musicOMH
Gallagher is never going to win awards for originality, but he has definitely progressed musically with this solo debut
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6.7
99913
6.7 |
Consequence Of Sound
Unmistakably glistens with the signs of a Liam Gallagher creation: it’s riddled with Beatles references and sass, but above all, it wields the guitar as an unstoppable force to be reckoned with
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6.7
99958
6.7 |
Paste Magazine
The singer plays to his strengths, and it works
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6.0
99957
6.0 |
DIY
Seemingly a glorified way of killing time until he and Noel eventually kiss and make up
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6.0
99910
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
There’s precious little danger of any new converts, but the Stone Island disciples will see this as a second coming of sorts
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6.0
99929
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Wheels are hardly reinvented here, but there’s a recognisable ring to these songs that will snag the attention whether you want it to or not
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6.0
99932
6.0 |
The Independent
Following the largely insipid twinklings of his Beady Eye, As You Were suggests that, given the right conditions and appropriate collaborators, Liam Gallagher could become a more potent force than expected
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6.0
99934
6.0 |
The Guardian
The younger Gallagher now has better ballads than Noel – but his lyrics will have you beating your head against a table
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6.0
100279
6.0 |
State
An Oasis reunion looks like an inevitability but the success of As You Were means that Liam won’t be just sitting on the side lines waiting for it to happen
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6.0
100080
6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
As You Were is full of tunes that sound perfectly fine wedged in between those Oasis hits in the set, which are the real price of admission for anyone these days anyway
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6.0
100092
6.0 |
Exclaim
As convincing as Liam Gallagher is when he audaciously boasts that he's "got the Midas touch" early on in the album, As You Were doesn't ever quite turn to gold
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6.0
100211
6.0 |
The FT
That unimaginable prospect, Liam Gallagher’s mature phase, is off to a strong start
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6.0
99965
6.0 |
Evening Standard
Swampy, insouciant, soaring — with far better guitars than Noel would have managed — the album opener Wall of Glass is the best thing he’s done in years
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6.0
100006
6.0 |
The Observer
Gallagher gets bogged down in over-egged schmaltz on the self-penned Universal Gleam, and the anthemic For What It’s Worth is a shameless hat-tip to Don’t Look Back in Anger
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5.0
100045
5.0 |
Clash
Liam Gallagher may well make a great solo artist, but ‘As You Were’ sadly does little to suggest it will be any time soon
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5.0
99914
5.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Some bits are alright, other bits are terrible, but it’ll be enough to keep him talking
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4.9
99908
4.9 |
Pitchfork
Fails to match the charm of his cantankerous public persona
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4.0
99935
4.0 |
Crack
While As You Were is all a bit Primal-Scream-do-the-Stones and forgotten-British-Invasion-psych-toffs-do-the-Beatles, it’s just about fine in a sort of XFM way
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