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Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Jul 23, 2012
    80
    This is a just a great sounding record. In truth; just great, period.
  2. Mojo
    Jul 18, 2012
    80
    It's accompanied with a swing and a fingerclick all Waterhouse's own and could turn out to be the soul album of 2012. [Jun 2012, p.88]
  3. 80
    Waterhouse's own voice is slightly under-recorded, but the musical settings--the understated Telecaster twang, the honking horns, the rumbling tom-toms--always churn with the right degree of roadhouse charm.
  4. May 7, 2012
    78
    Time's All Gone takes you back in the day and pulls you into the moment all at once.
  5. May 7, 2012
    75
    Waterhouse's pleasingly wrecked guitar playing is matched by singing that teeters out of control every so often, like he's trying to tamp down a wild animal in his throat.
  6. Aug 13, 2012
    60
    Time's All Gone is single-minded, but this is often good for a debut--better for a young artist to do one thing well then several things in mediocre fashion.
  7. Under The Radar
    Jul 9, 2012
    60
    Nick Waterhouse's debut album gives listeners a more rocking, lo-fi alternative in the growing marketplace of slick retro R&B revivalism. [Jun 2012, p.158]
  8. Uncut
    Jun 1, 2012
    60
    Waterhouse's big lunged holler is efficiently exciting, but his debut album isn't so much -- 12 songs, but 12 variants on the same song. [Jul 2012, p.85]
  9. The latest retro sensation, Waterhouse is a 25-year-old from San Francisco ... who's trying to sound like Ike Turner circa 1958. And he's pretty good at it.
  10. May 7, 2012
    50
    Unremarkable and uninspired.

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