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Red Image
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the second full-length album for the Norwegian electronic duo.

Top Track

Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)
Much as you blame yourself, you can't be blamed for the way that you feel Had no example of a love that was even remotely real How can you understand... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Originality, nostalgia, sincerity, camp--none of these are stable elements in Datarock’s world, which may explain why Red comes across as well as it does.
  2. 80
    The guys seem like they want to prove they are not just a regular dance band, and in that way they succeed, even including a spoken word piece about one’s concern of the great unknown ('Fear of Death').
  3. Uncut
    80
    Good fun. [July 2009, p.84]
  4. Under The Radar
    70
    Datarock is moving "Back to the Future," leaving the rest of us panting iin their wake. [Summer 2009, p.60]
  5. If it's feel good, throwaway pop music you're after, you'd be well advised to leave your inhibitions at the door and join them.
  6. Red may only be a fleetingly satisfying confection, but maybe that was the plan all along.
  7. The biggest problem with Red is that as obvious as Datarock's aesthetic is, it's still boring, and it doesn't stick to the tracks at all.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. drunkenstepdad
    Sep 10, 2009
    10
    Great f'n bar band,clever devils too - go see 'um.