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TOU Press Reviews
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Do we already have a thread for short press reviews? If ys, I'm sorry, couldn't find any.
Anyway, here is a short one from CLASH magazine. 7/10
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The only gripe I have with short reviews is that they never seem to go into enough detail to explain the score they give it.
For example, that review is pretty much entirely positive, yet it didn't get top marks. What are the critcisms? I'd like to know.
It just feels like the score is tacked on at the end just for the sake of it. -
And yet again another reviewer makes the mistake that Will does the music and Alison is only there for the vocals.....
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Dreeke said:
And yet again another reviewer makes the mistake that Will does the music and Alison is only there for the vocals.....
Grrrrrrrr. I haven't read it. I NEVER read reviews for anything until after I have seen/heard it. They taint my view. I have totally avoided the thread that talks about TOU content!
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There's a short but fairly reasonable review in Q magazine. I can't copy it cause I just read it in the shop.
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Dreeke said:
And yet again another reviewer makes the mistake that Will does the music and Alison is only there for the vocals.....
That pees us off so I can only begin to imagine how A&W must feel when it comes round yet again.
It's not like that question/comment hasn't been hammered into the ground over many interviews over many years by now!
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Good review here ( though I don't agree with their summation of 7T)
http://www.polarimagazine.com/musicreviews/tales-goldfrapp/ -
What is wrong with people today? Everyone is so desperate for approval.
For a band that has had much critical acclaim and success over numerous style's in their career, these are all still great reviews that will not put anyone off buying it or at least checking it out digitally (is that not the point of reviews?). New bands will always sound fresh and new because no one knows their history. They will always have that advantage where older bands don't and reviewers will have pre-conceived ideas what they are about.
One point that has come up on many reviews is the 'sound' of TOU. Goldfrapp have made a name for themselves for mixing old styles in new ways with great skill and talent (and indeed starting new trends).
With TOU I don't think any reviewer has said anything different than the album is well written and beautifully executed.
This album seems to have been written for Al and Will themselves (not for the record company or any desire to push musical boundries) aswell as the hardcore fans they were losing with Head First. But the reviewers are generally looking at it in the context of everything around it not just in the history of Frapp. So as beautiful a thing it is, when you look at it's sound, in a time when we have quite a lot of shit going down in the world and a possible return to 70's Britain here it does seem a bit retrospective in some ways. That is not a critism. Music is music. It's good or bad. But reviews of any art always take this into account. I don't think it is any coincidence it's got a better review in MOJO (fans of the old guard) than CLASH (fans of the new).
Then again I'm from Art School where critism is good, praise is bad. :-/
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ping said:
Good review here ( though I don't agree with their summation of 7T)
http://www.polarimagazine.com/musicreviews/tales-goldfrapp/
Me neither. And Ulla sounds far more likely to be on Seventh Tree than Felt Mountain.I guess they just really don't like ST. -
ping said:
Good review here ( though I don't agree with their summation of 7T)
http://www.polarimagazine.com/musicreviews/tales-goldfrapp/
If you press play in the video, the studio version of Clay plays. -
Really i should not bother about a review. Everyone has their own taste. Even on this forum we are all Frappers, Yet look at everyones album best to worsts. They vary incredibly.JAMIE CARRAGHER= LEGEND
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I'm a part time reviewer. Be afraid. Be very afraid.... ;)
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Be patient.
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tattmaylor said:
New bands will always sound fresh and new because no one knows their history. They will always have that advantage where older bands don't and reviewers will have pre-conceived ideas what they are about.
What a cracking point, well made.
A million fires before your harvest comes. To burn out.
Wear the mask of a heathen. For the moon's lonely eyes. -
Well, uhm, a lot of new/fresh bands are always blamed to be copycats or not having 'matured' enough to have found 'their own sound'. See, fhere's always some easy way to crtitisize bands.
Good journalists will look beyond these easy targets.
Judge new bands for their wide eyed newness, and old ones because of their progress/strengths.
Hope this makes sense.
Post edited by Dreeke at 2013-08-29 19:13:40
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