The Lockdown Sessions
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The Lockdown Sessions
The Lockdown Sessions is the 32nd studio album by English singer-songwriter Elton John. It was released through EMI in the United Kingdom and Interscope Records in the United States on 22 October 2021. The album was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic after Elton was forced to pause his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour due to the pandemic. The album includes three singles, "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" with Dua Lipa, "After All" with Charlie Puth, and "Finish Line" with Stevie Wonder. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Only Elton John Could Have This Much Fun Making a Quarantine Album.
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Firstpost
The album is far from being among his best, but it projects him as a champion of music and social communities. He is the kid who brought the bat and stumps to the game, and just wants to be allowed to play even if he is only assigned fielding duties, loudly telling anyone willing to listen, "I'm still standing."
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The Guardian
This album of collaborations with everyone from Stevie Wonder to Nicki Minaj is by nature disjointed – but fun.
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NME
‘The Lockdown Sessions’’ all-bets-off stylistic game of spin-the-bottle feels attuned to 2021’s post-genre Spotify world, as Elton continues to further his musical universe. The Rocketman remains in orbit.
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PopMatters
Elton John brings a wildly eclectic set of collaborators together for The Lockdown Sessions. It’s pure 21st-century pop, spiked with John’s vocals and piano.
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Metro Weekly
Elton John's lockdown project recruits top talent for a dizzyingly eclectic mix of songs.
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The Independent
It Sellotapes together 16 collaborations that bounce between genres, and between covers and originals, in a way that risks staking the listener back into 2020’s weirdly scattered and out-of-time mindset.
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Evening Standard
The music legend spent lockdown making new musical friends — it was well worth the effort.
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Stereoboard
One of the things that makes him such an enduring and popular figure is the different ways in which he reveals his creativity outside of the actual songwriting and performance—the outfits, the interviews and, yes, the collaborations. By using his platform to celebrate and promote other musicians, especially those from the LGBTQ+ community, there is something very compassionate in the music, and we can always do with a little more of that.
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musicOMH
With age, Elton’s vocal appears to have become slightly more mannered – on certain tracks, he comes perilously close to sounding a bit like Vic Reeves‘ comedy pub singer character. That doesn’t detract from The Lockdown Sessions though – an album that could have easily come off as a millionaire’s vanity project with his rich mates is actually a surprising, creatively rich endeavour.
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AllMusic
If Elton occasionally recedes from the spotlight, The Lockdown Sessions demonstrates how he remains a powerful presence in pop even when he's in the midst of a farewell tour.
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Record Collector Magazine
It’s almost inevitably a hit-and-miss affair, but when the stars align it results in some intriguing work.
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The Honey Pop
In a world where most of the new artists are, unluckily, not taken seriously, he appears to hate this as much as we do and he creates an opportunity for them to prove their amazing talents to the world. He doesn’t only show his support to new artists in the industry, but he also proves that many different genres can be at the same place in harmony.
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The Musical Hype
Iconic pop/rock musician Elton John delivers an engaging, fun collaborative 32nd studio album with The Lockdown Sessions.
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Hotpress
Some may be reluctant to call The Lockdown Sessions an Elton John record proper, but one listen to Glen Campbell’s ‘I’m Not Gonna Miss You’ should put them right. This is Elton in vintage form.
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The Ithacan
The fluency of this album is jarring, as John thoroughly embraces rap, country, rock and gospel in “The Lockdown Sessions” and, at this point, it seems implausible for there to be anything Elton John can’t do.
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The Myceaean
An album for everybody.
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The Canberra Times
Elton John's The Lockdown Sessions offers something for young and old.
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