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Album Review: Alex Lloyd - Acoustica

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"Go see him live. Buy any of his albums. Just don't remember these songs this way."

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Rightly cherished as a '00s triple j darling, Alex Lloyd's run of flawless singles, (peaking with 2001 Hottest 100 winner Amazing) and sapid LPs is enviable and often don't veer too far from simpler arrangements.

So an acoustic retrospective is borderline logical/superfluous. The exquisite Green, Black The Sun, Brand New Day and several others (including yet another totally unnecessary cover of Hallelujah) are inexplicably quashed by some awkward and seemingly incomplete acoustic adaptations that fit Lloydy's voice like a three-fingered glove. Go see him live. Buy any of his albums. Just don't remember these songs this way.

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