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| Avclub |
 The timing of Bob Mould’s Life And Times is no coincidence: Twenty years ago this month, Mould released his seminal solo debut, Workbook. The world knew him from the decidedly loud, angsty Hüsker Dü, but Workbook showed he could excel as a quieter, more contemplative singer-songwriter.
While Mould still has the ability to surprise listeners—like going electro-rock on 2002’s Modulate—a Workbook-like reinvention only happens once in a career. Life And Times arrives on Workbook’s anniversary, but it continues down the path established by 2005’s Body Of Song, Mould’s return-to-basics rock album after Modulate. Like last year’s District Line, Life And Times opens forcefully, with a mid-tempo stomper where Mould sings, “What the fuck, what kicked up all this dust?”...full text |
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| Allmusic |
| Based on its title, it's tempting to think of Life and Times as an autobiography, especially when armed with the knowledge that Bob Mould recorded this album while writing his actual autobiography (scheduled to hit stores in 2010). It's tempting, but not quite accurate, as this is less an orderly journey through the past than memories refracted through the prism of the present. Life and Times bears the unmistakable stamp of being latter-day Mould in how he consolidates his strengths, not embracing his electronica but not running away from it either, in how his writing has a casual, disarming frankness, particularly when recounting last night's sex on "Bad Blood Better." Still, there's no denying the reflective nature of Life and Times, how the past feeds the present in its subject and sounds, a description which suggests that this is a fragile, folky album, which isn't so -- this is Mould's purest pop since Sugar, its ballads surging with grace and its muscular songs built on skyscraper hooks. As immediate as Life and Times isn't nearly as diamond-hard as Copper Blue, which is a great part of its appeal: it flows naturally, the music never pushes, it settles, comfortable in its own skin....full text |
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| Courant |
The nostalgia permeating Jadakiss's third solo album is difficult to place. Is it because Jada has officially -- that is to say, besides his mixtape appearances -- been absent for half a decade? Is it that hip-hop's relentless decentralization has made Jadakiss a mere reminder of rap's last Big Apple glory days? Or is it that the format he pursues on "The Last Kiss" -- wall-to-wall superstar guest shots, from Mary J. Blige to Pharrell to Lil Wayne -- seems a formula whose time has passed as well?
Whatever the answer, "The Last Kiss" ends up a reasonable, though backward-looking, outing. Jada's blunt-raw rasp is better suited to the rough-and-ready numbers like disc opener "Pain and Torture," but he's professional enough to make the slicker numbers (like "Can't Stop" and "Grind Hard," both knee-deep in female backing vocals) stand up as well....full text |
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