Sticks + Stones
- Cher Lloyd
- Band Name: Cher Lloyd
- Record Label: Epic
- Release Date: Oct 2, 2012
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Oct 2, 201275With her manic lowbrow sass - tiresome at length but lovable on singles like "Want U Back"--she makes these street-laced pop tracks her own
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Nov 28, 201170It all adds up to a sassy, splashy modern pop album that rattles through its 10 tracks in a dash under 35 minutes.
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Dec 19, 201160There are times throughout its ten tracks when Lloyd does appear to be testing the patience of even her most ardent fans.
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Nov 28, 201160You end up with an album that tells you nothing about Cher Lloyd and everything about the people around her: specifically, that the dominant force in British pop music doesn't appear to have a clue about pop music.
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Nov 28, 201160The X Factor contestant's first album is an exhausting, if lovable mess of cartoon-bright, turbo-charged grime-pop.
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Nov 28, 201150Cher's not proved herself nimble enough to be more than roadkill beneath its wheels.
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Nov 28, 201140After a promising opening trio of tracks, Sticks + Stones wanes badly, and begins to sound more and more like it's been focus-grouped by industry executives in pursuit of a quick buck until there's barely any semblance of character left.
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Nov 28, 201130All Syco needed to do was reprise her staggering first TV audition. Astonishingly, they've dropped the ball.
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Dec 6, 201120the only real flashes of character come from the reworked riffs of Old Neneh Cherry and Ann Peebles hits used on a couple of tracks.
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Positive: 6 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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Negative: 5 out of 13
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Overall, 'Sticks & Stones' is pretty much everything thatâ
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