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Dec 16, 2010Things start to slow down toward the end of Progress, when Mark Owen, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, and Barlow get their own track to write--each revert to type, Barlow stultifyingly so on the sticky "Eight Letters"--but for seven tracks, Progress is the hippest and best music Take That has ever made.
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Dec 16, 2010With this collection of erratic egos, who knows; but the ebullient, daring Progress sounds more like a fresh start than a final destination.
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Dec 16, 2010Epic, exciting, strange and unexpected, it's exactly what pop needed, but surely not quite what Gary Barlow had in mind.
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Mar 10, 2011There is a tail-off in quality at the end, but every track still has a chorus that Swedish song factories would sell their grannies for and, most of all, there's a sense that Take That are genuinely challenging themselves here.
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Q MagazineDec 20, 2010Rushes to the head aside, Progress is a triumph musically, conceptually, personally. [Dec 2010, p.100]
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Dec 16, 2010At its best, with the apocalyptic stomp of "SOS" and the dreamy tones of "Pretty Things," it's clear Progress is by far the smartest record that Barlow and company have put their name to.
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Dec 16, 2010The real surprise is that this unexpected step from comfy balladry to something more interesting sounds quite natural – the only element that doesn't fit is the free-floatingly doomy lyrics, which foretell unspecified personal and global calamities.
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Positive: 15 out of 21
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Mixed: 2 out of 21
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Negative: 4 out of 21
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