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SCRITTI POLITTI "White Bread Black Beer" Reviews
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Release: 25 Jul 2006
Label: Nonesuch
Genre: Pop, Rock
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 8.3 |
What gives the album its frisson of fascination is Green’s invigorated take on distance, his favorite theme: in one of those yummy ironies savored by Green the post-structuralist, the aural vacuousness of WBBB itself embodies this distance—from the audience who paid for the ale-fueled exile.
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| TimeOut |
Rating: 8.3 |
His best since ‘Songs To Remember’, at least.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 8.1 |
It’s one of the smartest records.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 8.0 |
Home taping is saving music, it seems.
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| Monsters and Critics |
Rating: 8.0 |
The chameleon has come home and still sounds like no one else.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 7.0 |
This album features some of his most beautiful, introverted and delicate tunes yet.
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| Blogcritics |
Rating: 7.0 |
It's pop drenched in technology and philosophy.
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| BBC |
Rating: 7.0 |
This is an album of sweet melody but with an acid dissonance that flits in and out of hearing.
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| PlayBoy |
Rating: 7.0 |
On his fifth album, White Bread, Black Beer, the 50-year-old Gartside takes Scritti Politti into middle age, layering warm ocean-air harmonies and clever, reflective lyrics atop intimate bedroom synths.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 4.0 |
WB, BB is more flawed than masterpiece.
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| Bullz-eye |
Rating: 4.0 |
It’s like Robert Pollard doing a synth pop record, with fragments of ideas spliced together with little rhyme or reason dictating the proceedings.
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