Patience (George Michael album)
2004 studio album by George Michael / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Patience is the fifth and final studio album by the English singer-songwriter George Michael, released on 15 March 2004. The much delayed follow-up to Older, at the time of its release it was considered Michael's comeback album since it was his first album composed of original material since 1996, and his first for Sony Music since 1990's Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1.
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Released | 15 March 2004 | |||
Recorded | 1999–2004[1] | |||
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Producer | George Michael | |||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | (60/100)[2] |
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AllMusic | [3] |
BBC Music | (positive)[4] |
Blender | [5] |
Entertainment Weekly | C[6] |
The Guardian | [7] |
Houston Chronicle | C[8] |
Slant Magazine | [9] |
Stylus Magazine | D+[10] |
Uncut | [11] |
Yahoo! Music UK | [12] |
Patience spawned six singles. The first two, "Freeek!" and "Shoot the Dog", were already released in 2002 by Polydor, when the album was originally due.
In a 2004 interview with Adam Mattera for UK magazine Attitude, Michael explained how he felt reenergised and excited about the project: "There's something about the vocals on this album that's a lot more confident, more certain. There are proclamations of love that I've never made before – certainly since Wham! – and then there's going further into the truth at the same time, like on "My Mother Had a Brother" or "Through" – they're trying to get closer to the truth."[13]