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Twelve Stops And Home
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 36 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the debut album for the London-based pop-rock five-piece.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. Observer Music Monthly
    90
    Largely extraordinary... They write ornate and soaring conversational love songs, full of heart, bittersweet observation and unashamed street-level Englishness.
  2. Q Magazine
    80
    Textbook soft rock. [Jul 2006, p.111]
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  3. musicOMH.com
    80
    There's something appealing about their brand of music with its light, sunny harmonies and direct choruses.
  4. Uncut
    60
    There are mooments... when you get the feeling The Feeling will soon achieve more. Or rather, MOR. [Jul 2006, p.97]
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  5. New Musical Express (NME)
    40
    [They] are so busy trying to be Supertramp they've forgotten to add anything of themselves. [3 Jun 2006, p.35]
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  6. Drowned In Sound
    10
    Quite simply, this record is the devil's spawn incarnate.
  7. Dot Music
    10
    Relentlessly bland and bourgeois, "Twelve Stops And Home" sounds like the product of focus-group analysis.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 29
  3. Negative: 5 out of 29
  1. ChrisJ
    Jul 6, 2006
    10
    Great album with some catchy tunes :) What more can be asked. As long as your not a close minded vegetable you will like this album. And yes Great album with some catchy tunes :) What more can be asked. As long as your not a close minded vegetable you will like this album. And yes that is a direct swite at those giving this album bad reviews.… Expand
  2. angelal
    Mar 5, 2007
    10
    This is a pop album. That's right POP. Precious indier than thou comments kind of miss the point really. This isn't meant to be This is a pop album. That's right POP. Precious indier than thou comments kind of miss the point really. This isn't meant to be cool or odd or anything other than what it is. You won't get from this what you may get from Aereogramme or Mogwai. It is unashamed, big chorus sunshiney loveliness. Delicious.… Expand
  4. RobP
    Feb 2, 2010
    10
    I do question why many of the reviewers would even have picked up this album in the first place. It doesn't try to be any thing other I do question why many of the reviewers would even have picked up this album in the first place. It doesn't try to be any thing other than a bunch of hooky and sometimes reflective pop songs, every one lovable in its own way. It surely only appears pretentious to the pretentious! Not cool but it is fabulous.… Collapse
  5. Elin
    Sep 3, 2006
    9
    Great album - especially strange, love it when you call and helicopter. love it
  6. DanO
    Dec 14, 2006
    8
    If I was worried about what other people thought of my musical tastes, I'd give this a one. Thing is, I don't give a crap, so If I was worried about what other people thought of my musical tastes, I'd give this a one. Thing is, I don't give a crap, so it's a big fat eight. Fun tunes, perfect for those dull, dull days.… Expand
  7. paulj
    Jun 26, 2006
    8
    pleasant mix of old and new.Sewn' is a classic.hidden track is a nice bonus.A tap too much keyboard vamping at times and lyrics syrupy pleasant mix of old and new.Sewn' is a classic.hidden track is a nice bonus.A tap too much keyboard vamping at times and lyrics syrupy on ocassion but overall my fave LP this year.… Expand
  8. will
    Jan 9, 2007
    0
    I would rather roast my testicles over a blazing inferno than listen to Twelve Stops and Home. Possibly the worst compilation of crap going, I would rather roast my testicles over a blazing inferno than listen to Twelve Stops and Home. Possibly the worst compilation of crap going, and theres pleanty of that going around at the minute. Never be lonely is also one of the most unimaginative, relentlessly repetative and fucking appaling songs I have ever heard in my life.… Expand

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