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Big Station

Alejandro Escovedo

Big Station

Album No.11 from the Texas alternative singer-songwriter, reunited with songwriting partner Chuck Prophet and producer Tony Visconti

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7.1

Label
Concord
UK Release date
09/07/2012
US Release date
05/06/2012
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  1. 9.0 |   Paste Magazine

    Common mistakes, hearts ablaze, worlds torn apart and one man emerging from the maelstrom. Those are the things Big Station is made of, and it imbues this lean rock record with import beyond the sting of the smart, seething tracks
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  2. 9.0 |   All Music

    For all its ambition and poetry, Big Station is consistently great fun. The songwriting and recording employed here take Escovedo's populist and sophisticated art to a whole new level
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  3. 8.0 |   Blurt

    Cut for cut, Big Station is as strong a record as he's ever made
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  4. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    Big Station takes its cues from the catchier, zippier sides of R&B and new wave, to the extent that at times it sounds as tossed-off and frivolous as the train noises Escovedo makes on the title track
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  5. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Californian rock'n'roller digs deep into his roots. Print edition only

  6. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    If the songs don't always transcend their references, they rarely feel less than lived
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  7. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Has a more ambitious sound, in production, arrangement, and style, than either of Escovedo’s recent efforts with producer Tony Visconti
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  8. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    As good as Escovedo is with these anthemic declarations of rock and roll power, he is just as good as a solitary confessional figure or ace storyteller and these are areas that his recent releases could use a bit more of
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  9. 6.0 |   Q

    Can lay claim to being one of the most underrated storytellers of our times. Print edition only

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