James Dean Bradfield
The Great Western
Release Date: Jul 24, 2006
Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
Record label: Columbia
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Album Review: The Great Western by James Dean Bradfield
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The Guardian - 80
Based on rating 4/5
Based on rating 4/5
Bradfield said of his first non-Manic Street Preachers project: "Seeing 'Words and music by James Dean Bradfield' written down made me feel happy. I've lost a bit of my insecurity." It's sweet to hear the brass-lunged frontman confessing to lack of confidence; here, when in full bellow, he sounds like nothing less than the king of all he surveys. He makes the most of big arrangements in which guitars chime, xylophones tinkle and horns wail.
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