Keep Calm And Carry On
by Stereophonics
  • Record Label: V2
  • Release Date: May 11, 2010
Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Observer Music Monthly
    60
    Stereophonics deserve doughty, workmanlike praise: they're a safe pair of hands, and this record does exactly what it promises. There are worse crimes.
  2. The Guardian
    60
    Like 2003's electronic-based Dakota, their seventh album works when it breaks the mould.
  3. AllMusic
    60
    The relatively stripped-down setting winds up letting the rockers of the album’s first half latch in, particularly the rather propulsive “Trouble,” the nimble “She’s Alright,” and rolling “I Got Your Number,” and does keep the succession of anthems and ballads on the second half from seeming too languid.
  5. Q Magazine
    60
    I Got Your Number is a sexy, snarling glam rocker, Wonder recalls Smashing Pumpkins at their sunniest and Stuck In A Rut has the strut of prime-time Black Crowes. [Dec 2009, p. 110]
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  6. Drowned In Sound
    40
    This isn’t a particularly awful record--it’s simply a album full of typical sounding Stereophonics songs
  7. musicOMH.com
    40
    In the end, Keep Calm And Carry On is a forgettable, throwaway stopgap, a dog-eared blast of mediocrity in the career of a mainstay band.
  8. Mojo
    40
    Keep Calm...is a perfectly good album, but it strives for nothing more. [Dec 2009, p. 90]
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User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. RhoddriM
    Dec 6, 2009
    10
    After 10 years and a greatest hits tour, it may not be a completely fresh start, but it is a reassuring feeling you get when this album winds After 10 years and a greatest hits tour, it may not be a completely fresh start, but it is a reassuring feeling you get when this album winds to it's 45th minute close.… Full Review »
  2. BazW
    Dec 5, 2009
    5
    Nothing new here, same old same old.
  3. ChungulooM
    Dec 6, 2009
    10
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