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The Lights From The Chemical Plant

Robert Ellis

The Lights From The Chemical Plant

The Nashville-based country and folk artist releases his second album, produced by Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings Of Leon)

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6.9

Label
New West
UK Release date
03/03/2014
US Release date
11/02/2014
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  1. 8.6 |   Paste Magazine

    Ellis broadens his musical reach beyond deadly accurate classic country to often austere arrangements that reflect his small etchings of real life without aggressive genre-coding
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  2. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    A marvellous creation from a premiere talent, and deserves both your time and hard-earned money
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  3. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    An album of great accomplishment, thoroughly well-crafted, and a pleasure to have around the house
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  4. 8.0 |   All Music

    An inspired, mercurial record, by an artist who cares deeply for tradition, but refuses to be bound by it
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  5. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    He doesn’t go all the way into despair, he creeps — sometimes marches — right up to the brink and stares into the abyss, calling it out to play
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  6. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    The young Texas songwriter, who has proved his honky-tonk chops onstage, takes this opportunity to offer 11 expansive folk-pop songs that are closer in weary spirit to Paul Simon
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  7. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Despite his desire to move more towards pop on this third album, Robert Ellis can’t prevent his country roots showing through
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