Tales From Turnpike House
- Saint Etienne
- Band Name: Saint Etienne
- Record Label: Savoy Jazz / Sanctuary
- Release Date: Jan 24, 2006
- Summary: Sarah Cracknell & co.'s latest is a concept album about the residents of a London high rise.
- Record Label: Savoy Jazz / Sanctuary
- Genre(s): Indie, Pop, Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 22
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Mixed: 3 out of 22
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Negative: 1 out of 22
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100Such sentiments are couched in consistently wonderful songwriting, surf's-up vocal harmonies... and lavish electro-pop.
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Few of the tracks hav[e] enough energy or personality to break out of the enveloping lull created by perfectly crafted arrangements and manicured vocals. [#12, p.93]
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30Three tracks in you realise with horror that [it] is a concept album. Worse, it's a concept album of kitchen-sink dramas about Tony The Milkman and Doris The Housewife set to Saint Etienne's dated indie disco. [Jul 2005, p.120]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 20
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Mixed: 1 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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JaimeZ10With any dubt about it, this is the first conceptual album from Saint Etienne and the best. Ethereal, danceable, nocturnal.
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GaryW10As usual Q Magazine talk a load of crap and nowadays are not very good at reviewing.. St Etiennes best album yet
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ToddR4Stiff, stodgy, and heavily dated, this album is perfect proof that they should've retired years ago.
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