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21st Century Man

Luke Haines

21st Century Man

Former Auteurs and Black Box Recorder singer and author with his 6th solo album

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6.4

Label
Fantastic Plastic
UK Release date
02/11/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   The Times

    Haines is at his mordant best on the self-knowing title track: “I was all over the ’90s/ I was all over in the ’90s.”
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  2. 8.0 |   The Independent

    Luke Haines still clearly relishes playing the Wyndham Lewis of his era, setting himself up as The Enemy of any cultural tropes that threaten to achieve critical mass
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  3. 8.0 |   Uncut

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  4. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    This collection of songs once again proves to be entertaining, sometimes vicious, sometimes actually quite touching. Don't worry though; there's not much chance of Mr Haines approaching a mellow middle-age just yet
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  5. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    Ray Davies would have been proud of 'Love Letter to London,' which bade good riddance to the middle classes who treated the city as a playground in their youth
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  6. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    21st Century Man does nothing to shake the Auteur's image as the angry man in the corner of the pub of pop. But angry men sometimes need to be listened to
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  7. 6.0 |   NME

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  8. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    ...despite Haines’s terrifically clever approach to songwriting, he will always be the wrong side of bitter
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  9. 6.0 |   Q

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  10. 6.0 |   Mojo

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  11. 4.0 |   The Sunday Times

    There are snippets of genius. But what a saloon-bar bore he has become
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