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Intensive Care - Robbie Williams
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64 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critics What's this?

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7.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

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  • Summary: The British singer's latest was produced by Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. The Guardian
    80
    It ends up that most unusual of things, a stadium rock album with a personality of its own.
  2. Dot Music
    60
    An average effort with hints of greatness.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    Despite the air of musical schizophrenia, 'Intensive Care' is OK in a sort of karaoke way. [22 Oct 2005, p.43]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 22
  3. Negative: 4 out of 22
  1. RobertaS
    10
    he is never predictable...that Robbie...so is this album...a great one that will remind me summer of 2006 forever =)
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  2. MarianneW
    10
    I have listened to the album many times now and you find something new every time. The lyrics are fantastic and the melodies just grows. The instrumentations are the best ever of his albums. It shows he has paid much effort in these songs.… Expand
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  3. tonyk
    2
    The lyrics seem more brooding and deep than a lot of his previous stuff, and there is absolutely none of the quirky, cheeky sense of humor that robbie williams built his career on. Maybe not too surprising, given the subject matter. Gone, however, are the delightful phrasing and wide-ranging tunefullness that, for me, characterised his earlier works. This album feels strained, as though williams was being pushed to meet a deadline, and just threw in some studio time to get it done without really knowing what he was trying to do. The tunes are repetitive and lack dynamics, some of them are so bad that they just make me cringe It's almost as if Robbie woke up one morning and discovered that he had forgotten everything he ever knew about how to put a tune together. I loved just about everything else he's done, but this one's a shocker.… Expand
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