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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
Walker plays it exceedingly straight, even when he's delivering good-time numbers like "Kit Kat Jam." This po-faced sincerity winds up underscoring Walker's debt to Dave Matthews Band -- they now seem like a clear influence on his adventurous folk-jazz -- while also highlighting the imagination behind the original set of songs.
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8.0
108360
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Exclaim
Not just for Dave Matthews Band fans, Ryley Walker's The Lillywhite Sessions is a reminder that taste is subjective, timing is everything, and you don't always choose the ones you love
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Irish Times
The start-to-finish interpretations are inclusively weird and wonderful – Walker lobs jazz bombs, avant-garde grenades and abrasive Americana into the mix and strolls away without looking back
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
Completely unexpected, utterly brilliant. Print edition only
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7.8
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7.8 |
Pitchfork
He convincingly connects his adolescent love to his adult explorations
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7.4
108496
7.4 |
Paste Magazine
This labor of love represents an earnest conversation between a musical trailblazer and a young fan—an interplay of innovation and tribute that many music fans would likely endorse
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7.0
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7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
It’s hard to know whether DMD stalwarts familiar with the original sessions will take kindly to this interpretation, but it hardly matters. More than a few of us might start scrambling into that discography, seeking the edgier, more exhilarating moments until we see what Walker has seen in this music all these years
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6.5
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6.5 |
Under The Radar
So while there is, without question, a wink, these covers come from a place of love
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6.0
108362
6.0 |
Mojo
The Lillywhite Sessions doesn't just open another window into Walker's mind, it points out a door to a place beyond. Not everyone will want to go too far through it, but it's an alluring gateway. Print edition only
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6.0
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The Observer
This, then, is more of a curio than a proper follow-up to May’s Deafman Glance, and is likely to be of far greater interest to DMB completists than the casual listener, but it makes for an at times intriguing project
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5.0
108363
5.0 |
Uncut
He overthinks the rambling "JTR" and overstuffs the messy collage "Monkey Man." Print edition only
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