Keep Calm And Carry On
- Stereophonics
- Band Name: Stereophonics
- Record Label: V2
- Release Date: May 11, 2010
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This isn’t a particularly awful record--it’s simply a album full of typical sounding Stereophonics songs
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The relatively stripped-down setting winds up letting the rockers of the album’s first half latch in, particularly the rather propulsive “Trouble,” the nimble “She’s Alright,” and rolling “I Got Your Number,” and does keep the succession of anthems and ballads on the second half from seeming too languid.
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60Like 2003's electronic-based Dakota, their seventh album works when it breaks the mould.
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Stereophonics deserve doughty, workmanlike praise: they're a safe pair of hands, and this record does exactly what it promises. There are worse crimes.
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40In the end, Keep Calm And Carry On is a forgettable, throwaway stopgap, a dog-eared blast of mediocrity in the career of a mainstay band.
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80This seventh studio album doesn't find them doing anything much different but still doing it with grit and conviction. [Dec 2009, p. 113]
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60I Got Your Number is a sexy, snarling glam rocker, Wonder recalls Smashing Pumpkins at their sunniest and Stuck In A Rut has the strut of prime-time Black Crowes. [Dec 2009, p. 110]
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40Keep Calm...is a perfectly good album, but it strives for nothing more. [Dec 2009, p. 90]
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BazW5Nothing new here, same old same old.
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