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Changing Horses

Ben Kweller

Changing Horses

Acoustic blues, country tunes and pedal steel guitar on the young Texan's fourth solo outing.

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6.3

Label
ATO
UK Release date
02/02/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Kweller keeps his rig rolling by constantly switching things up. Even so, he never strays too far from his lyrical home of love songs and witty wordplay.
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  2. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    Ben Kweller may not get a lucky break and this album may not have an obvious stand-out single…
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  3. 7.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    An album full of hope and heartbreak
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  4. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    There's a charmingly tossed-off quality to the entire set, whose 10 songs frequently deal with women and their troubled men.
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  5. 6.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    The young Texan's first three albums were only country tinged but his fourth is thoroughly immersed in a wash of pedal steel and honky tonk piano.
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  6. 6.0 |   Spin

    Kweller's boyish charm and quirky songwriting keep it more promising than predictable.
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  7. 6.0 |   The Scotsman

    Fourth solo album is undemanding, pleasant fare, garnished liberally with the sweet sound of the pedal steel guitar and disarming melodies.
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  8. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    Although lacking the blues it craves, it sets the scene for an album of intimate and intriguing songs, painting pictures of rocking chairs on porches and every other 'country' stereotype you can think of.
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  9. 5.3 |   Pitchfork

    I certainly can't hold it against Kweller for trying something different. Changing Horses nonetheless finds his half-assed over-countrification and half-assed under-countrification to be equally ineffectual.
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