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A  Trip to the Coast Image
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75

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  • Summary: The first solo release in almost nine years for the British indie-pop singer-songwriter was produced by Tim Bradshaw.
  • Record Label: Tapete Records
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Experimental Electronic, College Rock
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Mar 11, 2014
    90
    The album is full of straightforward and jangly guitar pop, full of hooks and production turns that would feel at home on mixtapes of early-'90s underground alternative acts, the likes of which Pritchard himself belonged to and came up with.
  2. Mar 11, 2014
    80
    If you’re looking for that next hooky, guitar-pop record you could do a lot worse than this.
  3. Mar 11, 2014
    70
    A Trip to the Coast is the welcome return of a familiar form of hooky, melodic minor scale pop balladry.
  4. Mar 11, 2014
    70
    A Trip to the Coast his first album for five years, is full of the kind of sweet, slightly off-kilter songcraft and guitar pop that could result if, say, Lloyd Cole and Robyn Hitchcock were forced to breed.
  5. Q Magazine
    Mar 14, 2014
    60
    A welcome return for a long-lost treasure. [Apr 2014, p.116]
  6. Mar 31, 2014
    60
    Pritchard is at his self-deprecatory best on the witty but barbed break-up song Yeah Yeah Girl, while producer/guitarist Tim Bradshaw deserves credit for so fearlessly jettisoning the indie comfort blanket on the stylish, Chris Isaak-esque noir of Posters.