Keith Urban, Marilyn Manson, Ace Frehley, Vika & Linda: Latest album reviews – Courier Mail

This weeks album reviews from The Courier-Mail (ratings out of five stars):
COUNTRY POP
Keith Urban, THE SPEED OF NOW Part 1
(Capitol) ***1/2
The urbanisation of Keith is complete. You can take the boy out of Caboolture, and it seems you can take the Caboolture out of the boy, at least temporarily. When you first hit play on his new album the only clues to his country roots are the distant strains of banjo beneath the pounding pop (Out the Cage with Nile Rodgers and Breland). The follow-up t…

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