Mike Doughty - Golden Delicious reviews
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| Billboard |
 It may be his poppiest and slickest work to date, but "Golden Delicious" is more proof that Mike Doughty still knows where to make the melodies twist and turn to find the sweet spot among the ridiculous, the sublime and the sad. Opener "Fort Hood" is a deceptively boppy-sounding look at a soldier who'd rather "leave the mobs and the murder in a distant land" before throwing out a chorus or two of "Let the sunshine in" and then lamenting that said soldier is no longer of the enviably innocent time where his biggest need is to "blast Young Jeezy with your friends in a parking lot."...full text |
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| Blender |
| Soul Coughing’s effects-bedecked avant-funk always made Mike Doughty’s strange, smart, associative rants stranger and smarter. Fronting a competent funk-rock touring unit, he’s Missy without Timbaland, Mick without the Stones. But he’s also an excellent fit for ATO, Dave Matthews’s adventurously roots-friendly label. Doughty’s fourth and best solo album gives up two keepers: the semi-absurdist “More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle,” with Stephanie Bischoff’s guest vocals sexier for sure than any synth weirdness Soul Coughing ever confabulated, and the mournfully understated Iraq opener, “Fort Hood....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| Since disbanding his unclassifiable postbeat group Soul Coughing in 2000, Mike Doughty has calibrated his once-abstract ideal to accommodate a broader audience. He’s moved away from stream-of-consciousness emceeing to embrace the more conventional expectations of a singer-songwriter. That means Doughty’s songs are now frequently about concrete things, where in the past they’ve been hung around nothing more than rhythmic cadence or a conceptual absurdity. Doughty’s 2005 full-length debut, Haughty Melodic, proved that he hadn’t necessarily remade himself so much as he had softened the edges of his esoteric tack....full text |
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