Tired Of Hanging Around
- The Zutons
- Band Name: The Zutons
- Record Label: Deltasonic / Red Ink
- Release Date: Sep 19, 2006
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The album is everything you might've hoped for--a bold rock sound, big hooks, clever horn parts, and McCabe's usual daft humor. [#14]
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80You have to go back to Costello, The Beat or Smiths to find a catalogue simultaneously as hummable and as disturbing as McCabe's. [May 2006, p.102]
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80Positively electric. [Sep 2006, p.143]
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80Music this hard-partying can make for a tough morning after. [Oct 2006, p.105]
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More proof that sophomore efforts don't have to be sleepy. [Oct 2006, p.212]
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80Tired Of Hanging Around is as delightfully quirky, original and catchy as its predecessor, whilst also representing something of a leap forward.
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One of the most likeable albums of the year.
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80Tired of Hanging Around is warm, vibrant, tight, and crackling in just the right places.
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78If they keep churning out albums this enjoyable, we won't ever get tired of the Zutons hanging around. [#21, p.93]
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'Tired Of Hanging Around' is one seriously pissed-off, paranoid, twitchy record.
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70The boundary-trampling spirit that makes their music stretch out almost infinitely live remains barely tapped. What keeps The Zutons special is singer David McCabe's lyrics. [May 2006, p.108]
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70The second album is much easier on the ear than its unvarnished predecessor.
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The band's favouring of big brass accompaniments and enthusiastic vocals gives this album momentum, but it's their preference for substance over style that ensures Tired... puts their modish peers to shame.
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It's their honest simplicity that offers a refreshing contrast to the irony of neo-new-wave disco retreads that are all the rage in the UK.
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60Experimental it ain't, but this summer in a shiny flat box it is.
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The band presently possesses more 'tude than tunes. [Nov 2006, p.81]
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40There just aren't enough ideas or songs to make up for the overwhelmingly mean perspective.
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40McCabe is bearable, even fun. But he oversings like a guy who's mistaken a North Dakota rock club for Madison Square Garden. [Oct 2006, p.142]
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40Many of [the debut's] ragged edges have been smoothed out, and in the process some of The Zutons' collective personality has gone. [May 2006, p.122]
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EspenH6One really good song, some ok and the rest averege