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It ends up that most unusual of things, a stadium rock album with a personality of its own.
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It's Robbie The Rogue's least immediate album and needs several listens to get to grips with, but Intensive Care feels like Robbie has allowed himself freedom of expression, even if he doesn't always know how best to use it.
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Hiccups aside, Intensive Care is the first album in a while on which the whole thing gives the impression that even when he misses, Robbie Williams is at least trying.
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MojoHere, he is still the anthem addict of old, but there are softer, subtler electronic textures and a real sense of reflection. [Nov 2005, p.112]
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Q MagazineFor all its rosy glow of nostalgia, it's essentially just another Robbie Williams album--occasionally spectacular, more frequently merely solid. [Nov 2005, p.116]
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An average effort with hints of greatness.
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UncutThe songs often seem over-anxious to build to show-stopping choruses. [Nov 2005, p.94]
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New Musical Express (NME)Despite the air of musical schizophrenia, 'Intensive Care' is OK in a sort of karaoke way. [22 Oct 2005, p.43]
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Lyrically the record is less cringe inducing than 'Escapology' but Robbie has been let off the leash for a while in this respect, and while sometimes he can be funny, he needs people to tell him when he's being trite and just downright embarrassing.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 54 out of 66
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Mixed: 1 out of 66
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Negative: 11 out of 66
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RobertaSJan 23, 2007he is never predictable...that Robbie...so is this album...a great one that will remind me summer of 2006 forever =)
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MarianneWMay 9, 2006
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SandraQJan 16, 2006