★★★★★
Where did it go? The pure rush of "Lightning Bolt"? The aching, nostalgia of "Simple As This"? The warm afterglow of "Broken"? From the first bouncy notes of Shangri La, it's clear that Rick Rubin declined (somewhat contrary to his usual approach) to strip away sound and instead felt inclined to add more. Why, exactly, are we bopping our heads to "There's a Beast and We All Feed It"...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-02-03
★★★★★
Every few years or so, the "new Bob Dylan" comes along - Conor Oberst, Dan Bern, Tallest Man on Earth, John Prine. Shaggy brown hair is preferred, folk songs rather necessary, acoustic guitar required. It's a media-generated moniker that no artist really likes to hear, because while it's an honor, surely, to be compared to the legend of lyric, it's also one impossible to shake, not to mention live up to. Thanks, but no thanks. Not since Donovan has the U.K...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-01-18
★★★★★
It is artists like Jake Bugg that help restore your faith in modern music. Drawing influence from artists such as Bob Dylan, Nick Drake and Elvis Costello, this 19 year old singer-songwriter has taken classic rock n' roll and re-marketed it in a nice little easy to swallow package. Even fans cannot be blind to his clever marketing. Rick Rubin produces the album and the impressive star-studded band includes Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas...
- www.state.ie
2013-11-23
★★★★★
"I wake up/Check my phone/Jump in my whip/And off I go," Jake Bugg sings on "Kingpin." It's a song about the lush life of a drug dealer with a steelback giddyap that connects Eddie Cochran to the Smiths' "What Difference Does It Make?" And that knack for yoking today's restless energy to yesterday's jangle is what makes the 19-year-old U.K. chart-topper likable...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-11-19
★★★★★
Photo: An eponymous Mercury-nominated debut album which topped the UK charts, a performance on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury and sold-out shows across the country, it appears that Jake Bugg has the world at his feet. With the release of his second album a mere 13 months after the first, does 'Shangri La' live up to the high expectations or has it come a bit too quick for the young man from Nottingham...
- www.gigwise.com
2013-11-19
★★★★★
In every ejaculation there are 600 million sperm, two thirds of which could have ended up being . That's 400,000,000 decent singing voices. 400,000,000 knacks with melody. 400,000,000 s. Each one could have done it. One of those sperm had to make it to the ovum against astronomical odds, survive childbirth and childhood, learn the guitar and live long enough to have something to sing about...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2013-11-19
★★★★★
Label:
Mercury
Release Date:
18/11/2013
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In every ejaculation there are 600 million sperm, two thirds of which could have ended up being Jake Bugg. That's 400,000,000 decent singing voices. 400,000,000 knacks with melody. 400,000,000 Shangri Las. Each one could have done it...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-11-19
★★★★★
Someone must have bought Jake Bugg a Skiffle compilation and Woody Guthrie's Best Of in the time since his first album sent the Oasis-deprived massive into lager-throwing hysterics. With new Rick Rubin produced album Shangri La - named after the Californian studio in which it was made - it's another day, another cracking little record from the boy Bugg...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-11-19
★★★★★
Shangri La loosely translates to "heaven on earth". It is also the name of producer extraordinare Rick Rubin's home studio in Malibu where this album was recorded. It might also describe the beatific sensation you may experience as these 12 impressive tracks roll by. Anyone who thought that youngster Jake Bugg was a media controlled flash in the pan, please leave the room now. This follow up to last year's debut is beautiful...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-11-19
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