Kick Up The Fire And Let The Flames Break Loose Image
Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 9 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the second album for the Reading, England rock band.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. In its ambition, emotion, aggression and intelligence, Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose is a work of sheer bloody genius.
  2. Lord knows what's going to happen when they abandon their commercial concessions entirely (as we suspect this buys them the opportunity to do. Good), but this is stunning enough in its own right.
  3. The most brilliantly ambitious record of the year.
  4. The band members produce huge sounds reminiscent of Primal Scream, Radiohead, and Nine Inch Nails, but when Gautrey opens his mouth -- there's Liam!

See all 16 Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. coalgove
    10
    I saw them live. Was blown away with the sheer genius and madness of tctc. Buy the album, you will not regret it. Mine has not left my cd player for a month. Expand
  2. KenzuK
    10
    I've listened to this album since it's 2003 release and I haven't bought a better record after since. It's good. It's so bloody good. Compare it to what you want but in my opinion it is nothing else but TCTC. They have created their own sound, (no its not radiohead or oasis or whatever some reviewers are saying) obviously influenced by these reviewers comparisons but these influences have not left footprints in the actual music. This album is why I listen to music and almost nothing goes even near it. Expand
  3. PaulF
    9
    After hearing the first album I wasn't sure whether to get the follow up. I'm not saying that the first was particularly bad, it just wasn't that great. However, after hearing so many positives about this one I decided to go get it. Lets just say I'm amazed at how far the Cooper Temple Clause have moved on from See This Through and Leave. Kick up the fire... is so much darker, so much stranger and so much more original. Even if you didn't like their first album, this one is a must own. It's grips you from the fantastic opening track 'The Same Mistakes' to the epic ending of 'Written Apology'. This is alternative rock at its very best and probably one of the greatest most original albums ever released. Expand
  4. MarcO
    8
    Shows the band has matured since their debut, and although it seems less loud than 'See This Through And Leave', some parts are genuinely fiercer. Expand

See all 7 User Reviews