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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Hamilton Leithauser’s real world vignettes on The Loves Of Your Life are his finest moment to date
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8.2
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8.2 |
Paste Magazine
The former Walkmen frontman’s second solo effort is a generous collection of narrative-driven Americana
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8.0
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8.0 |
Evening Standard
From cinematic opener The Garbage Men to the intimate The Old King, where Leithauser harmonises with his daughters, it’s positive, life-affirming stuff. Highly recommended
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8.0
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Northern Transmissions
A collection of successful character sketches and a successful creative exercise for Hamilton Leithauser
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8.0
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8.0 |
musicOMH
It may not have the immediacy of old Walkmen songs such as The Rat or Angela Surf City, but these stories of New York characters have a charm and subtlety all of their own, which is rewarded by repeated listening
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8.0
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All Music
By the time The Loves of Your Life closes with the joyous "The Old King," Leithauser stretches his music into a wide embrace of the past and present that's all the more impressive because it feels so lived-in and genuine
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8.0
118097
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Q
Leithauser's voice is its usual delicious scuffed-up howl, the music covers a broad indie-rock sprawl, but the focus here is the stories. Print edition only
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8.0
118098
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Mojo
The arrangements are more ebullient and wide-ranging. His subjects - all character sketches of friends or chance meetings - are also multifaceted. Print edition only
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8.0
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Loud And Quiet
It’s a further breakaway from the great, dirty city sounds he helped revive in the early ’00s, but it lounges around the same subjects with a renewed and lighthearted sense of reverie
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8.0
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Clash
Sonically ‘The Loves Of Your Life’ is a Wurlitzer whirlwind of nostalgia, however the glimpsed memories that lie at its heart are so charmingly dazzled to life - they are testament to the humanist eye of a songwriter as vividly inspired as he has ever been
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8.0
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The Observer
Throughout, Leithauser performs with his customary passion, and this marks a pleasing new direction for a singular talent
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7.6
118150
7.6 |
Pitchfork
The former Walkmen member wrote each of these songs about a specific person, forming an archive of memories that comes alive in his elevated songcraft and dynamic voice
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7.0
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7.0 |
Beats Per Minute
Even when the material is less than hoped for, his voice can still manage to grab you square in the heart
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7.0
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7.0 |
Uncut
Fun for all the family. Print edition only
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6.0
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No Ripcord
Leithauser’s gift as a storyteller still holds strong on this project. The Loves of Your Life was designed with each song intentionally being about a specific person, which makes even the worst songs interesting tales
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