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The band's weakness is an unfortunate tendency to drift occasionally into MOR territory, and sometimes generic boy-meets-girl lyrics fail to keep the arrangements above water.
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MojoUltimately, The Runaway suffers from an excess of emotional drizzle and not enough musical firestorms. [Jul 2010, p.102]
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While it may not be enough to garner any new fans, existing devotees will feel that the wait has been worth it.
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Here, they shuffle through one stylistic experiment after another. The fingerprint on the album's cover art seems a little ironic, since for the first time, the Magic Numbers seem hard to identify.
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Q MagazineThe Magic Numbers' central problem remains: too few hooks back up the pretty tunes, and The Runaway becomes an album you want to love, but struggle to recall even as it glides on by. [Jul 2010, p.135]
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The Runaway may just be a stumble on the band's road to maturity, but it could also signal something more troubling: the beginning of an endless, effortless loop.
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Not all the songs deserve such painstaking embellishment, and several stumble while mixing 60s pop and 80s melancholy, giving The Runaway the feel of an elaborate souffle that doesn't quite rise to the occasion.
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UncutThe Runaway is FM pop at its most heartfelt. [Jul 2010, p.112]