• Record Label: EBGB's
  • Release Date: Jun 6, 2011
Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Negative: 1 out of 7
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  1. Jul 26, 2011
    80
    Sophie's chart positions may have dropped, but there's no dip in the quality pop on offer here.
  2. Jan 13, 2012
    60
    Make a Scene still provides a couple of gems, but it's hard to shake the feeling that she's now milked the whole dance-pop ice-maiden schtick well and truly dry.
  3. Mojo
    Jul 26, 2011
    60
    For this album she as worked with a breathtaking array of collaborators, with varied results. [Jul 2011, p.115]
  4. Jul 26, 2011
    50
    Despite the contemporary co-writes, in an age where Take That work with Stuart Price and Nicola Roberts embraces Diplo's electro cool, this album comes across as a selection of competent B sides surrounding the fantastic Starlight.
  5. Jul 26, 2011
    40
    the bulk of the record is shopping-mall pop that was probably expensive to make, but sounds depressingly cheap.
  6. Jul 26, 2011
    40
    A legion of co-producers attempt to recreate the slick dance-pop for which she is famed, but too often her husky voice and arch delivery are given short shrift by bloated house beats and perfunctory hooks.
  7. 20
    Needless to say, it's totally fucking rubbish.
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 26 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 26
  2. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. Aug 28, 2018
    5
    Another album ruined by studio interference, the release date being pushed back multiple times, the album title changed twice and unclearAnother album ruined by studio interference, the release date being pushed back multiple times, the album title changed twice and unclear focus on production. Make A Scene also contains three collaboration singles released years earlier. It mostly feels like a slapped together, cheap compilation album than the beauty we know SEB can produce. Download: Starlight, Bittersweet. Full Review »
  2. May 9, 2016
    6
    I think this album is worst Sophie Ellis-Bextor album. Strange that half of album songs was released as singles but just few of them deserveI think this album is worst Sophie Ellis-Bextor album. Strange that half of album songs was released as singles but just few of them deserve to be a single. I think this album could have been better, if it would have less electronic sounds which in some songs sounds annoyingly. Then I hear songs Heartbreak, Can't fight this feeling, Under Your Touch and Bittersweet i thought this album gonna be amazing because these songs so nostalgic and good, but the rest of album is much harder to listen. Full Review »
  3. Nov 1, 2012
    8
    I should confess - at first, I wasn't very fond of this album either. But after a couple of listens, Ellis-Bextor won me over (again). It'sI should confess - at first, I wasn't very fond of this album either. But after a couple of listens, Ellis-Bextor won me over (again). It's pure dance-pop perfection and I don't see how anyone could deny it. Minus the disappointing "Homewrecker", the album is one of her best works. Full Review »