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"Natural Rebel" is the fifth studio album by the English singer and musician Richard Ashcroft. The album was released on 19 October 2018 on the BMG label.
This is the first Ashcroft's album to be not produced by his longtime producer Chris Potter, and were replaced by Jon Kelly and Emre Ramazanoglu.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 58, based on 11 reviews, indicating "Mixed or average reviews ".
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There’s no shame in drivetime. Drivetime music has a job to do, and its success or failure is gauged by whether it performs that job: does it comfort? Will it soothe you in an endless jam and uplift you on an open road? Music that comforts is much undervalued, because its virtues seem so everyday. So it’s not intended as criticism to say that Richard Ashcroft’s fifth solo album is a drivetime record: it slides past the window like a sunlit wheat field. Ashcroft has sanded off almost all the edges: where his last record nodded vaguely in the direction of electronica, this one hugs at the roots-rocker end of his musical palette: pedal steels and acoustics are much in evidence.
Reviewed by Michael Hann for theguardian.com.
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