memory almost full
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memory almost full
Memory Almost Full is the 15th solo studio album by Paul McCartney. It was released in the United Kingdom on 4 June 2007 and in the United States a day later. The album was the first release on Starbucks' Hear Music label. It was produced by David Kahne and recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Henson Recording Studios, AIR Studios, Hog Hill Mill Studios and RAK Studios between October 2003, and from 2006 to February 2007. In between the 2003 and 2006 sessions, McCartney was working on another studio album, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (2005), with producer Nigel Godrich. -WIKIPEDIA
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Pitchfork
a retreat to homespun simplicity.
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Adrian Denning
There's a touch of Wings about Paul's latest effort.
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RollingStone
by McCartney’s recent standards, the album justifies the pop eccentricity he pursues so imperturbably.
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BBC
Sounds very much of the now, something that a Macca album hasn't done in a while.
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ALL MUSIC
it lingers in the heart and mind in a way uncommon to the rest of his work.
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The Guardian
There's no longer any shame attached to imitating Wings. Why, even Macca's at it.
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Los Angeles Times
High points outpace the lows.
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Emtertainment
His best record since 1989's Flowers in the Dirt, Memory is beautifully elegiac and surprisingly caffeinated.
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HOT PRESS
Missing, thankfully, are the twee Paulie-isms that often insult our intelligence, making Memory Almost Full that rare thing, a modern-day Paul McCartney you can listen to without wincing.
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sputnik music
Consistently better than McCartney's other solo work.
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The New York Times
It has a simplicity that gives it a rougher, rockier, more homespun sound than most of his recent albums.
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No Ripcord
In the end, Memory Almost Full is a reliable, easy record for a man who’s been far too reliable for his own good.
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NME
Not quite double thumbs aloft then, but way fabber than it has any right to be.
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Boston Globe
This collection is filled with half-baked ideas and shallow reminiscences, a pair of dated rockers, and one meditation on mortality that manages to be maudlin and bubble-headed at the same time.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
That was the highest debut for a Paul McCartney album in a decade.
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Uncut
freshly signed to coffee giants Starbucks new label, each cheery thumbs up represents another nail in the coffin of the myth of the tortured artist.
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Record Collector
McCartney is a songwriting genius.
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Don Ignacio
I don't wish to tout this album as some sort of great masterpiece, but it's certainly a distinguished and entertaining work.
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Walking in the Pleasure Garden
Paul is cheerful, deep and awesome.
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Blogger News Network
a great example of fine music composition, and fine lyrics.
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
An understated triumph for McCartney.
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