Red - Guillemots
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60 out of 100

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6.9 out of 10

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  • Summary: This is the sophomore album for the British indie pop rock band led by Fyfe Dangerfield.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. musicOMH.com
    100
    There's not one duff moment during the album's 50 minutes - it's pop music to be treasured, loved and listened to for years to come.
  2. Drowned In Sound
    80
    Red’s a grandiose statement of intent, crammed with aspirational symphonies that run the gambit of popular culture over the past 40 years without ever succumbing to grating pastiche.
  3. Mojo
    60
    Sometimes there's a danger that comes with being too damn clever, namely that the melodies at the heart of songs can suffer or a feeling of too much fiddling around. [Apr 2008, p.104]
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  4. Dot Music
    60
    Time and time again, this patchy album is dragged down by obscenely flashy production, a surfeit of ideas that conspire only to sabotage the songs themselves and writ large across it all, Fyfe Dangerfield's interminable, platitudinous emoting.

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. Derringer
    9
    This is a wholly unique twist on the concept of a pop album. The songs are fun, melodic, inspiring, danceable, and never cliche... Guillemots have potentially made the most forward thinking and exciting pop album of the year. If you are lookiing for more of the debut, you'll be disappointed, but I personally got annoyed with their unnecessary long tunes that meandered at times on the debut (I LOVED LoveSong and Trains to Brazil though).... Definitely NOT an album to pass up. It takes a few listens but the red meatball will eventually overtake you. :)… Expand
  2. gideonosphere
    5
    there are some tracks on this album that are...audacious. i'll give you that, but this one has its moments still when i can lose myself completely. i imagine the inconsistency of this record can be attributed to the fact that Fyfe only wrote a couple tracks off of Red. what disappoints me most about this record, however, is that what Fyfe did so well with his lyrics on Through the Windowpane - the flimsy, whimsical, hopeless romantic - is gone. this is angsty, and it doesn't suit Guillemots. the bold, loud, clangy, boisterous music doesn't fit them either.… Expand
  3. Riccardinho9
    0
    Possibly the most horrific second album in the history of recorded music. After Through the Windowpane, this album is like going out to a swanky restaurant you know and love and finding yourself in a motorway cafe somewhere on the M6. God only knows what they were thinking. How to end our career in one simple move?… Expand
  4. KenK.
    0
    It became not pop.

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