This is a brilliant album—a collection of smart, funny, catchy, soulful, touching songs that come from a pen you might have forgotten over the years.  Full text...

He's the eternal misfit.  Full text...

Now age 62, Davies shares the mortality obsession heard in the latter work of similarly graying singer/songwriters like Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, and the late Johnny Cash.  Full text...

Davies has produced an album that delights as much as it disappoints, leaving the listener not celebrating the rebirth of one of England's greatest songwriters, but slightly confused. At 61, it seems, Davies is still not interested in making things easy for himself.  Full text...

Indeed, whether storyteller or self-confessional chronicler, Davies is indeed "not like everybody else."  Full text...

I also have to admit that it gets better the more I listen to it, but let’s bear in mind that I am forcing myself to listen to it.  Full text...

For a songwriter of Davies' calibre, Other People's Lives is nothing short of a failure.  Full text...