4.8
Avg Score
4
Opinions
#50,608
All Time
12
Tracks
“If any man is keeping the faith in solid Noel-rock song-writing, it’s Richard Ashcroft. This fifth solo album – the follow-up to 2016’s rousing comeback album ‘These People’, which was 10 years in the making – is the noble sound of one cosmic romantic trying to make sense of this crazy, messed-up world with just the acoustic guitar, the odd orchestra and full choir that still-healthy ‘90s royalty ”
“Richard Ashcroft has been on obligingly gobby form during promo for his fifth solo album, goading Lily Allen, denouncing X Factor, and (most impressively) asking the son of late Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein for £15m in ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ royalties 20 years after he got clobbered for sampling a Jagger/Richards composition without asking. However, if one were worried that Ashcroft’s antic”
