True Meanings

AlbumSep 14 / 201814 songs, 54m 54s
Pop Rock Singer-Songwriter
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Low goes fully experimental on Double Negative, while Philly’s Spirit Of The Beehive gains focus on Hypnic Jerks, and Paul Weller contemplates True Meanings.

After a burst of forward-thinking creativity, this dewy-eyed collection finds the Modfather back in pastoral mode

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6.6 / 10

On their debut album, Pale Waves sound too close to their label mates The 1975, while Paul Weller offers an interesting, if not transcendent, new addition to his canon

Consider True Meanings Paul Weller's comedown from a combustive, creative decade begun with 22 Dreams.

8 / 10

Paul Weller has never liked being comfortable. He split The Jam at their arena-filling height, forced The Style Council to make a record label infuriating

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9 / 10

By themselves, any of the songs on Paul Weller's new album, True Meanings, would sound perfectly natural on any of his previous albums.

7.0 / 10

Paul Weller sticks to simple writing for a mixed bag of safe but occasionally interesting songs in our review of 'True Meanings.'

Some of Weller’s most lovely songs, as well as tracks written by others, ponder change and self-doubt on this gentle, acoustic-sounding album

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A songwriter moving gracefully into his autumnal years.

Album Reviews: Paul Weller - True Meanings

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8 / 10