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Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings
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Dec 18, 2016Stuart Price is without doubt, the greatest electronic producer of the last 20 years. Adding his production with Barlow's stylish songwriting gave us one of the most unexpected albums of the year. Take That are known for radio friendly pop music (which is no bad thing), but Progress saw them experiment, get a little weird and non-mainstream, and it worked beautifully.
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Jun 15, 2011
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Jan 19, 2011It kinda took me by surprise to be confronted with an ambitus, determined record suggesting one of the best pop albums of 2010. It ensures the capability of expanding the band's fans and the promise of a greater Take That following album.
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Dec 31, 2010Take That's Progress is their best album to date. Gary, Mark, Jason and Howard have all unleashed their inner Robbie. But, be warned, it is not the Williams of Angels and Let Me Entertain You, itâ
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Mar 10, 2011There is a tail-off in quality at the end, but every track still has a chorus that Swedish song factories would sell their grannies for and, most of all, there's a sense that Take That are genuinely challenging themselves here.
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Q MagazineDec 20, 2010Rushes to the head aside, Progress is a triumph musically, conceptually, personally. [Dec 2010, p.100]
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Dec 16, 2010The real surprise is that this unexpected step from comfy balladry to something more interesting sounds quite natural – the only element that doesn't fit is the free-floatingly doomy lyrics, which foretell unspecified personal and global calamities.