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Straight No Chaser

Mr Hudson

Straight No Chaser

Formerly Mr Hudson & the Library, the London act team up with Kanye West for a second album of alternative R&B, electro and hip hop

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5.1

Label
GOOD
UK Release date
01/12/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It’s a talent for smallness in spite of showy surroundings, an Englishness that’s as convincing as anything Jamie T, Mike Skinner or Lily Allen has produced, infiltrating the upper echelons of the American music establishment
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  2. 7.0 |   The Fly

    The hooks, the glamour, bleating pleas and icy electronic beats are all there
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  3. 6.0 |   Q

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  4. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  5. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Supernova and new single White Lies bode well, showing what he can do with a tune and a computer, but West is forever adding clunky raps where they're not wanted
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  6. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Much of Straight No Chaser is drenched with the auto-tune vocal gimmick so favoured by Kanye – which, given that Hudson's voice has a timbre akin to Chris Martin and Sting, may not be the shrewdest move.
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  7. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    At times West’s penchant for staccato beats and effects pushes several tracks into generic r’n’b territory.
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  8. 4.0 |   musicOMH

    The big beats and rich, synthetic arrangements are programmed to uplift, yet the songs themselves carry the opposite message, their troubled author picking over the remnants of a faded relationship
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  9. 4.0 |   The List

    ...underwhelming little brother to West’s 808s and Heartbreak
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  10. 2.0 |   NME

    Oh, did someone mention Auto-Tune? Because it’s not Hudson’s foghorn bellowings that are the real enemy on this record, it’s that motherfucking computer program
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  11. 2.0 |   The Times

    Talentless men … tend just to do really dull things.
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