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The Independent
This long-overdue retrospective spreads The Kinks' career across six CDs
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The Times
This reappraisal of their back catalogue makes it clear that not only did the songwriting match that of the Beatles but, at their best — they could rock as hard as their contemporaries the Stones, The Who and the Yardbirds.
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NME
Listen hard. Focus on each sound, analyse it, pin it down, pull it apart. It’ll just shift under your gaze and run off laughing. Or you could just run with it.
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Rolling Stone
Every single groove, Davis sings, ""cuts me to the bone."" It is a familiar sensation here.
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The Guardian
It's hard to stifle an apprehensive gulp when their last great album, 1971's Muswell Hillbillies, hoves into view and you realise there are still three CDs to go.
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Uncut
Picture Book, in the end, is simply too honest for its own good. “Look how splendid we were!” it boasts, “and see how turgid we became.” Thank heavens it’s sequenced in chronological order.
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Evening Standard
The 138 songs on this six-disc set are slightly more manageable but Picture Book mistakenly places equal weight on each phase of the Muswell Hill band's career.
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Independent on Sunday
When they were good, though (the majority of CDs one to four), they were very good indeed.
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