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  • Summary: The first full-length release of original songs from the Rolling Stones since 2005's A Bigger Bang features guest appearances by Elton John, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, and Bill Wyman.
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  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. 100
    The new Rolling Stones album is the best thing they have made since their Seventies glory days. Which, it might reasonably be argued, de facto makes it the best rock’n’ roll album of the past four decades at least.
  2. 90
    It’s a 21st-century record for a 21st-century audience that, with an old-school 48-minute duration, only ever leaves the listener hungry for more.
  3. Oct 23, 2023
    90
    The fact that Hackney Diamonds is this damn good further proves that even the bands who’ve given every bit of themselves to the music still have more left to give.
  4. Oct 10, 2023
    80
    Hackney Diamonds isn’t just another new Stones album, but a vibrant and cohesive record — the first Stones album in ages you’ll want to crank more than once before filing away.
  5. 70
    It’s by no means perfect, but that’s not what the Rolling Stones are about. These troubadour, raconteurs set the blueprint and this is them laminating it for good measure, refusing to ever let the moss grow fat.
  6. Oct 23, 2023
    70
    At its heart, it's nothing more than the Rolling Stones knocking out some good Rolling Stones songs, which seems like a minor miracle after such a long wait.
  7. Oct 19, 2023
    45
    They try and fail to reinvigorate themselves in the rock’n’roll fountain of youth they helped create, only to emerge with a dozen hackneyed duds.

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