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Paul McCartneyKisses on the Bottom59 Based on 8 reviews 2012 Ranking: #210 / 227
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At the age of 69, Paul McCartney has never sounded more subtle, warm and comfortable voicing a lyric as he does here.
Elsewhere, the music is so inoffensive and gently wrought that it’s difficult to generate any enthusiasm in either direction.
It is a definite return to form for McCartney, but he isn’t exactly operating in the same spaces as usual.
It’s nice to get away from the noise every once in a while, and this record does the trick.
If only most of the album didn’t sound so sleepy, wrapping McCartney in strings as he works through songs that he clearly likes but just as clearly don’t engage him all that much.
Unfortunately what we’ve got here is a boring album that seems even more turgid because it is from an exceptional artist.

| 80 | Paste [src ] |
| 60 | AllMusic [src ] |
| 60 | Consequence of Sound [src ] |
| 60 | PopMatters [src ] |
| 60 | The 405 [src ] |
| 58 | A.V. Club [src ] |
| 50 | Drowned in Sound [src ] |
| 40 | Tiny Mix Tapes [src ] |