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  • Summary: This is the soundtrack for the ballet based on a Hans Christian Anderson story.
  • Record Label: Astralwerks
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Stage & Screen, Punk/New Wave, Synth Pop, Cast Recordings, Musical Theater
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. The Independent (UK)
    Apr 6, 2011
    80
    Despite being further from their comfort zone, this second foray into theatrical composition, a ballet based around a Hans Christian Anderson parable, is vastly more adept, involving the deft interweaving of electropop and orchestral elements within a series of impressionistic tableaux sketching out the theme of conflict between creativity and destruction.
  2. musicOMH.com
    Apr 6, 2011
    60
    For the tale is only partially told here - which, when you compare The Most Incredible Thing perhaps unfavourably to the great ballets of the 19th or 20th centuries, is the one thing most obviously lacking. For now we should admire the abilities of Tennant and Lowe to move from structures of four minutes to those of an hour and a half, and hope this encourages them to continue in a form in which they have made a very listenable start.
  3. All Music Guide
    Dec 21, 2011
    60
    Of limited appeal, but appealing nonetheless.

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