★★★★★
So just what can you expect from singer songwriter Tom Odell on his debut album? If you've listened to the Brit awards then you'll be expecting fireworks, but if you've taken any notice of the capricious NME then you'll be avoiding him like the pestilence. After any artist enjoys excessive hype, the inevitable media counter-attack follows to restore parity and reset our expectation equilibrium...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-02-17
★★★★★
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Tom Odell - Long Way DownTom Odell - Long Way DownRecord Label: Columbia
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Sometimes, riding the fence isn't really such a bad thing. As goes the legacy of Hannah Montana, not fully devoting yourself to one side of the spectrum leaves you with the best of both worlds. 22 year old Tom Odell is entirely aware of that and, like Adele, Florence & The Machine, Mumford & Sons etc...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-07-31
★★★★★
Release Date: June 24, 2013 Sometimes, riding the fence isn't really such a bad thing. As goes the legacy of Hannah Montana, not fully devoting yourself to one side of the spectrum leaves you with the best of both worlds. 22 year old Tom Odell is entirely aware of that and, like Adele, Florence & The Machine, Mumford & Sons etc. before him, he's decided to focus his energies on melding genres together and maintaining humongous amounts of appeal...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-07-29
★★★★★
It's easy to feel a bit sorry for Tom Odell. When he started strumming a guitar and fondling a piano, he had dreams of becoming one of the greats. After a childhood spent learning the piano, he stayed up all night, got lucky with a melody or two, then got a manager, a lawyer, a record deal; then went into the studio, released an album, it went to number one first week... but along the way, he seems to have had no time to grow and that will be his downfall...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-07-23
★★★★★
Morrissey proclaimed over two decades ago that, "We hate it when our friends become successful", but being British as he is, he should've known that it's in the British national psyche to hate it when practically anyone becomes successful. Any triumph is invariably met with the notion that the progenitor needs to be taken down a peg or two. We derive such pleasure from schadenfreude it's a miracle we don't have our own word for it...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-06-28
★★★★★
Tom Odell possesses an undeniable and unique power. His voice, at once brittle and bullet-proof, communicates a brand of emotional range that should quite suitably amuse, trouble and stun his audiences. On debut demo, "Another Love", a song that featured a sparse piano-progression that gradually, with help from the singer's voice, gathered itself to full might, a young talent in full bloom...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-06-24
★★★★★
There was much amusement in the Twitterverse this week after Odell's father rang NME to complain about its 0/10 review of Long Way Down.
A shamelessly showy act by the magazine, pretending to still have teeth by tokenistically savaging a Heart FM-targeted artist while remaining safely sycophantic towards its core indie darlings. But, truth be told, Odell's debut barely deserves a higher mark...
- www.independent.co.uk
2013-06-25
★★★★★
Some artists respond to hype by overcompensating. Tom Odell, who won the critics' choice prize at this year's Brits, has gone the other way. There is something admirably cocky about the brevity of his debut album, which barely crosses the half-hour mark, and these 10 songs capture the 22-year-old's appeal - his key-thumping energy, his heart-on-sleeve simplicity. But, if anything, the album feels too focused...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-07-30
★★★★★
Some artists respond to hype by overcompensating. Tom Odell, who won the critics' choice prize at this year's Brits, has gone the other way. There is something admirably cocky about the brevity of his debut album, which barely crosses the half-hour mark, and these 10 songs capture the 22-year-old's appeal - his key-thumping energy, his heart-on-sleeve simplicity. But, if anything, the album feels too focused...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-06-23
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