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Man Overboard

Ian Hunter

Man Overboard

The septuagenarian's 13th solo album, following up 2007's acclaimed Shrunken Heads

ADM rating[?]

6.5

Label
New West
UK Release date
20/07/2009
  1. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Doesn’t quite scale the heights of its predecessor, even containing a stumble or two, but it still offers plenty. It’s a calm contemplation of history, myth, morality, mortality; in short, the big picture
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  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  4. 6.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Some masterfully easy-rocking tunes, with wry, amusing observations
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  5. 6.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    Hunter has always been something of a guilty pleasure, neither Dylan nor Bowie but a reassuringly hairy in between, spikily confrontational or yobbishly sloganeering
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  6. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    With that sandpapered voice, and the phrasing that shares with Marianne Faithfull... Hunter is as sharp and cussed as ever
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  7. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    Yes, I realize I’m a colossal d-bag for finding fault with an old man’s happiness. But for nearly 40 years people (myself included) have found solace in Hunter’s wit and cynicism. To hear a half-dozen sappy love songs from this notoriously poison pen, well, what the world needs now from Hunter is not love, sweet love
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