Tom Odell

British singer-songwriter

A platinum-selling British singer/songwriter with a keen sense for both atmosphere and melody.

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“[In the Seventies], music criticism was a blood sport,” says veteran critic Jim Farber. “The record companies would pay to send you across the globe to write stories and the writer could come back and type up the most vicious thing imaginable. Even the 1990s had its fair share of put downs. It was just accepted”