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8.0
103819
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
On The Straight Hits! Pearson seems to be having a ball. He’s playing loud for the first time since The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads and it appears to be agreeing with him
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7.5
103816
7.5 |
The 405
In its fairly diverse array, it offers half a dozen different directions that he could move on his next album – or he could make another pick’n’mix collection like he has here
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7.5
105433
7.5 |
Under The Radar
A maudlin, lugubrious affair, its quasi-spiritual songs dripped with a heavy sorrow that infiltrated your bones, that offered no sense of reprieve save for the raw, (fallen) angelic beauty of its seven songs
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7.0
104151
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
On a bender of this magnitude, you’re guaranteed to have a few stumbles, but it’s worth it for the highs
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7.0
103820
7.0 |
Uncut
It's not all straight A's, but that hardly seems the point. This feels like a necessary act of burning and rebuilding. Print edition only
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6.0
103821
6.0 |
Q
Pearson wrote the LP according to five songwriting "pillars" and the constraints, paradoxically, have freed him up. Print edition only
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6.0
103817
6.0 |
The Skinny
Too often the feeling remains that the joke isn't funny enough to sustain a whole record, especially one that follows a masterpiece
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6.0
103818
6.0 |
The Independent
This latest, dashed-off transmission suggests a fine artist afraid of seriously dealing with his talent
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6.0
103814
6.0 |
All Music
He's upended the high expectations of his 2011 album, no longer seeming like a soul-baring troubadour. Whether that was worth a seven-year wait, only fans can decide
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6.0
103815
6.0 |
musicOMH
Josh T Pearson’s latest experiments have made for his most uneven record yet, but among the less characterful songs, there’s still some of that old miserable magic to relish within the directness of it all
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6.0
103823
6.0 |
Record Collector
The best moments recall Dan Sartain, a man whose moustachioed fashion victim look Pearson seems to have lifted, but whose freewheeling punk rockacountrybilly essence he hasn’t quite distilled
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4.0
103822
4.0 |
Mojo
The Straight Hits! is front-loaded with positivist rockers, but these are ramshackle. Print edition only
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