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Title: Can't run any more
Review: His last album (if you ignore Capeman, which most would consider kind), Rhythm of the Saints, began with the line 'Can't run but I can walk much faster than this...' and many thought it summed up an album of gentle, pleasant underachievement. Paul Simon's pace now seems to have slowed to a crawl - this album is like Hearts and Bones with a tinkling of African guitars and cheap-shot lazy lyrics (reminiscent of Loudon Wainwright III) - but without the standouts like Train in the Distance and Rene and Georgette Magritte that made Hearts and Bones a truly wonderful, if flawed, work of art. Well, people get older, they get a little set in their ways, a little boring, and they start thinking that Uillean pipes are a good idea (cf Van Morrison). Not one song in particular is really worth mentioning. I just hope he plays some of the old tracks on his UK tour!
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