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Their new record Blue Lights On The Runway has the potential to turn X1 into a stateside #1.
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The Irish quartet holds up its end with an album of melodically memorable and inventively arranged songs, most clocking in at more than five minutes and massaging listeners with a wash of keyboard and guitar textures.
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In short, Blue Lights on the Runway has it all.
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Blue Lights on the Runway is one of those rare albums that you can pretend to like for its alt-credibility while secretly just enjoying it for the hooks.
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Q MagazineIt once again showcases just how satisfying a Talking Heads obsession coupled with an ability to craft uncommonly graceful ballads can be. [Apr 2009, p.97]
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Bell X1 has found an absorbing but unshaven sound, set apart by ease and experimentation and yet inevitably spoiled by them.
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Blue Lights is uneven, but the good songs are really good.
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The rest of Blue Lights on the Runway is duller than 'The Great Defector;' most of it sounds like warmed-over Coldplay.
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The success of such tracks generally rides on the melody, and here Bell X1 get two out of three pretty right.
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Under The RadarBlue Lights is more of an affective slow burn, which is to say it is often a bit of a bore. [Spring 2009, p.70]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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JTApr 1, 2009
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Nov 2, 2011
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AnneC.Mar 16, 2009Fantastic beautiful and FUN.