Praise & Blame
From a distance, Tom Jones’ new Praise & Blame seems like just another Johnny Cash-style comeback by an aging star. And in a sense, it is. But Jones is a pop artist, and as such, he has every right to latch onto whatever trend he likes. With Praise & Blame, however, he’s done more than shallowly recasting himself as a…
For those who think Tom Jones is nothing but kitsch, camp, and sex appeal, this rootsy, poignant, and highly spiritual album will come as a shock.
A supremely competent record...With all the furore surrounding ‘Praise & Blame’, you could have been forgiven for thinking Tom Jones had shaved his beard and gone dubstep.
The Welsh belter has reinvented himself as a man of gravitas – and he's succeeded, reckons <strong>Michael Hann</strong>
By far Jones’s best album in two decades or more and it isn't made up of hymns. Rating: * * * *