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Scissor Sisters are record fans from way back, so they structure nearly every element of Night Work to relive the heady days of AOR (aka album-oriented rock).
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The Scissor Sisters' third nightlife-themed album, Night Work, is a return to the glittery, flamboyant pop of the group's 2004 self-titled debut
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It's hard work keeping track of all the Scissor Sisters' references, but dancing to them certainly won't be.
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New York's disco–?new wave party people are in freak mode on their third disc Night Work, dropping crass come-ons and slutty entendres like parade confetti (gay, straight, you name it).
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Jan 5, 2011Despair is very much with us. It'll blow up before it recedes. And this music is intensely committed to escaping it.
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No surprise here-it's a dance album filled to the brim with beats that could make even a corpse twitch.
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MojoReturning to their electro roots might seem a surprising direction to take...but it works. [July 2010, p. 96]
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If Night Work set out to remind listeners what they loved about Scissor Sisters in the first place, it succeeds. If it had a couple more absolute killer songs then it would be an unqualified triumph but, as it stands, Night Work will do more than nicely.
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Night Work makes no apologies; Stuart Price creates a sound that is fierce and muscular.
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Though it starts off with a set of songs that wouldn't sound out of place on the two previous albums, Night Work quickly slips into hyper-sexualized gay club mode and sticks with that vibe until the end.
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Q MagazineShears is now too smart a lyricist to need this sort of cartoonish carry-on. And, bar a smattering of filler, the tunes are unstoppable. [Jul 2010, p.124]
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By matching their sound so adriotly to the content of their songs, Scissor Sisters makes Night Work an album of real structural sophistication.
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Jake Shears and Ana Matronic trot out those Bee Gees harmonies again over Moroder-style synth runs and glam guitars, delivering a stirring anthem about how for some disaffected folks, nightclubbing time is business time.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 47 out of 53
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Mixed: 5 out of 53
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Negative: 1 out of 53
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AndyCJul 1, 2010
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Apr 29, 2012
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Jun 24, 2019