Lifeline - Ben Harper
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  • Summary: The San Francisco Bay Area native recorded his latest album in seven days after a tour in Europe.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Lifeline thankfully favors songs over jamming, but there's a casual profundity to tunes like 'Fight Outta You' and 'Say You Will' that a more complicated process might've squelched. Just add applause.
  2. An album which on occasion fails to inspire ends with a sense of unbridled pleasure.
  3. 80
    Lifeline is a classy record that never outstays its welcome. [Sep 2008, p.98]
  6. His most impressive feat is that the whole thing never once descends into Kravitz-sytle pastiche. [Dec 2007, p.116]
  7. There isn't a bad song on the record, but neither is there a particularly good one.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
  1. DaiK.
    Sep 24, 2007
  2. mikea.
    Sep 20, 2007
  3. SuhanG.
    Sep 12, 2007
  4. DanielC.
    Sep 5, 2007
  5. JaredC.
    Sep 9, 2007
  6. JD
    Sep 13, 2007
    Weak effort. The songs are flat and often insipid. Does anyone consider the phrase "Happiness is having wings" inspired writing? Please. Major disappointment from a man and band who had been on fire with their last two releases. Expand
  7. Jun 27, 2011
    Boring album where all the songs sound exactly the same and none of them are inspired or go anywhere at all.

    Barely passable for background

    the production using old equipment is fine but doesn't really put any meat on the songs.

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