★★★★★
Photo: It might seem like forever since Paolo Nutuni's pencil was full of lead but he's back and better than ever. This time he comes to terms with a ten year relationship falling to pieces. Caustic Love is his most adventurous record to date but at just twenty seven there's a lot of life left for this Scot whose croaky voice screams with agony and whose emotions are still pretty raw...
- www.gigwise.com
2014-04-14
★★★★★
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It might seem like forever since Paolo Nutuni's pencil was full of lead but he's back and better than ever. This time he comes to terms with a ten year relationship falling to pieces. Caustic Love is his most adventurous record to date but at just twenty seven there's a lot of life left for this Scot whose croaky voice screams with agony and whose emotions are still pretty raw...
- gigwise.com
2014-06-03
★★★★★
Caustic Love is the first album of new material from multi-platinum singer and songwriter Paolo Nutini since 2009's Sunny Side Up. On that album, the whiskey-voiced Scott explored retro-soul and R&B piecemeal, weaving them into his pop palette. In the interim, the 27-year-old has been soaking up the soul and funk sounds of Motown, Atlantic, Stax, vintage New Orleans, Daptone funk, and more...
- www.allmusic.com
2014-04-22
★★★★★
It's been a while since we heard from jovial Scot Paolo Nutini, five years to be precise since the five-time platinum Sunny Side Up. That album saw Nutini develop his rootsier side, a journey that continues on Caustic Love. Wrapping his versatile voice around funk, R&B; and soul melodies, it's an experiment that sometimes works a treat, but falls down elsewhere.Gorgeous torch song 'One Day' and the cool strut of 'Numpty' are where the album works best...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2014-04-16
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Paolo NutiniCaustic LoveAtlantic2014 Poor Paolo. He wants to be James Brown, funky horns'n'all, and people lump him in with Jameses Blunt, Morrison and Arthur. That'll be why the 27-year-old Scot had taken five years to unleash this third album, an ambitious stab at morphing into a mature soul man. And it's worked. Gone are the jaunty crowd-pleasers, replaced by real grit and passion...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-04-13
★★★★★
Five years on from the light, life-affirming Sunny Side Up, Paolo Nutini reins back that album's enjoyable diversions into Dixieland, ska and folk music for a more concentrated attack on his core qualities as soulman. It's an unqualified success: Caustic Love may be the best UK R&B album since the 1970s blue-eyed-soul heyday of Rod Stewart and Joe Cocker...
- www.independent.co.uk
2014-04-14
★★★★★
Perhaps it's his lounge singer name, his dishevelled good looks or his penchant for creating vastly profitable Radio 2-friendly hits, but Paolo Nutini has never been granted the discerning acclaim such a voice deserves. His third album, the follow up to 2009's 1.8m-selling Sunny Side Up, however, aims to put an end to that: the 27-year-old and his whisky-soaked words writhe their way around a multitude of Motown-inflected could-be singles, paying homage to Prince, Marvin Gaye, Echo and the...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-04-11
★★★★★
Eight long years have passed since Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini burst onto the scene as a young 19-year-old with his poignant love ballad Last Request. It was the first of a series of successful singles from his debut album, with Jenny Don't Be Hasty, Rewind and New Shoes all performing well in the UK Singles Chart. The album itself, These Streets, also charted well - even if it did receive a rather damning one star review from this very site...
- www.musicomh.com
2014-04-14
★★★★★
Paolo Nutini is making a definitive statement with his third long-player - a coming-of-age avowal with crossover appeal. Revelling in the epiphany and heartbreak of monogamous love, Nutini effortlessly explores feel-good funk on 'Scream' (video below) and psych-rock on slow burner 'Iron Sky', the latter a showcase in raw candour...
- www.clashmusic.com
2014-04-05
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