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Hendra

Ben Watt

Hendra

Second solo album from one half of Everything But The Girl working with ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler and producer Ewan Pearson

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Caroline International S&D
UK Release date
14/04/2014
  1. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    His warm, autumnal voice suggests he was slightly hard done by in ceding vocal duties to EBTG band mate — and now wife — Tracey Thorn
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  2. 8.0 |   The Observer

    10 unassuming songs about life, loss, grief and the like
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  3. 8.0 |   Q

    Presents mature reflection on memory and loss. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Hendra might deal with life's compromises, but there's no disappointment here. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    It's a very English sounding record. The autobiographical detail means that the songs offer a tour of the landscape
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  6. 8.0 |   The FT

    Relates small pleasures in a drift of Knopfler-esque guitar licks and mellow folk-rock
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  7. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    At times melancholic and at others uplifting, it’s a strong, coherent piece of work
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  8. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    A nearly essential album in a decorated career
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  9. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    The songs occupy their own modern spaces with a raging peacefulness
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  10. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    An album that has more hidden depths than its MOR surface may suggest
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  11. 7.0 |   The Music

    Every now and then the guitars start to pick up or the tempo gives the listener a little nudge, but for the most part, this album glides by effortlessly
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  12. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    An album that embraces patently unhip music in a wide-eyed, charming, and often rewarding way
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  13. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Woven throughout is one man’s sober demeanour peppered with atmospheric and serrated folk rock
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