Lift your spirit

"The lone song with a sentiment that can't be summarized by the album's title, "Ticking Bomb" ("The whole world's sitting on a ticking bomb, so keep your calm and carry on"), doesn't seem right within the sequence but is a career highlight. The album's content is otherwise reflected in the title. It could use more of that grit heard in the earlier releases".

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"Albummets sammenhængskraft fordufter fuldstændig på "Ticking Bomb", der runder undervældende soul-blues, hvor den ellers nogenlunde gemytlige Aloe Blacc pludselig forudsiger verdens undergang. Han formår dog ikke at aflyse denne lytters planer for den kommende tid, for sangeren er ingen original, visionær poet, og hans musik fungerer afgjort bedst, når han holder sig til danse-eller nynne-venlig underholdning med hverdagsperspektiv".

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"It's clear, from the super-slick fashion-ad cover to the MOR country-tinged first notes of the opening track, Wake Me Up, that Blacc is now part of the commercial juggernaut - and it's not pretty. There's good songwriting in places, but with the artist's idiosynchrasies effectively airbrushed out by a bloated production, the result is a dull, vapid collection of songs desperate to please".