Coming Up for Air
by Kodaline
  • Record Label: RCA
  • Release Date: Mar 24, 2015
User Score
3.9

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 49 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 49
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 49
  3. Negative: 28 out of 49
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  1. Hackskeptic
    May 28, 2015
    4
    Second album from the Coldplay endorsed wannabe’s. Indeed, singer Steve Garrigan’s mix of falsetto and alto shows just how desperate he is to be Chris Martin when he grows up, and his band are doing their best to reach that plateau of complete bland-out simplicity. May stake a claim to be as crucial as other Irish groups like The Script, Westlife and Boyzone.

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Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. AllMusic
    Mar 27, 2015
    40
    It feels as if this is as calm as a placid lake. Sometimes, the record is as pretty as that, too, a nice, polite collection of adult alternative pop designed for young girls and their moms.
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  2. Q Magazine
    Feb 9, 2015
    60
    It's bigger and brighter. [Mar 2015, p.119]
  3. The Guardian
    Feb 9, 2015
    60
    Their songs are still almost mathematically placed between Coldplay and Snow Patrol, with a smidgeon of U2 and the sort of big choruses and bells-and-whistles-and-choirboys production once trademarked by Westlife.
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