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- Summary: The Manchester five-piece alt-rock band's fifth album follows up their Mercury Prize-Winning album, The Seldom Seen Kid, and further showcases their poetic, lyric-driven, atmospheric music.
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- Record Label: Polydor
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Open Arms | |
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Lying beside you here in the dark Feeling your heartbeat with mine Softly you whisper, you're so sincere How could i love be so blind We sailed on... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 26
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Mixed: 0 out of 26
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Negative: 0 out of 26
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Mar 10, 2011Their last album, The Seldom Seen Kid, managed the rare feat of winning the Mercury prize and huge public affection. So how do Elbow follow it? With continued greatness and without fuss.
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Mar 9, 2011Commendably, the Bury band's fifth album doesn't see them chasing the mainstream or pandering to the ear of the daytime radio dilettante.
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Mar 8, 2011They continue to make music that sounds like it cares how you are.
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Mar 11, 2011Since The Seldom Seen Kid's release it seems everyone and everyone's mum are now fans of the band. Though Build A Rocket Boys! is a strong album, it never quite matches the rampant grace of that record and in many ways caters to their more tested demographic.
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UncutMar 29, 2011In short, it's a quietly beautiful record: anthemic but not bombastic, introspective yet universal, simply drawn but beautifully coloured in. [Apr 2011, p.82]
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MojoApr 14, 2011As with earlier records, Build A Rocket Boys! is touched by ambitious, intuitive invention. [Apr. 2011, p. 92]
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Sep 13, 2011There are too many golden slumbers ("The Night Will Always Win"), and since the snapping and grandiose arrangement of "High Ideals" passes for the pulse quickener on Rocket, tempo could vary more, as it does in the banging build of "Open Arms," another British best in any decade.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 13
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Mixed: 1 out of 13
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Negative: 2 out of 13
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