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Touchdown
EMAILPRINTby Brakes [aka brakesbrakesbrakes]
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
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Album Info
Label: Fat Cat
Release Date: 21 April 2009
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Indie
Summary
The third album for the English quartet was produced by Paul Savage.
Also By This Artist: Give Blood Rock Is Dodelijk The Beatific Visions
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
New Musical Express
There’s no better soundtrack to getting by and falling in love as the world wobbles unsteadily about us.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
You’d be hard pressed to say that they didn’t get it right on the first two, but Touchdown unites all that is great about countrymen Arctic Monkeys.
Read Full Review >Spin
These Englishmen have learned impulse control. Frontman Eamon Hamilton's playful yelp has given way to a sturdier sound.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
A slightly more polished and accessible album than their last, showing the band tightening their reigns slightly and turning in some of their tightest, cleanest work to date.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
Fizzing with energy and wearing its Pixies hat with pride, Touchdown is a blast of brain-scrambled indie rock that reaches its apogee, of sorts, on the irresisitibly dumb 'Hey, Hey.' [May 2009, p.119]
Filter
Touchdown is the band at its best, most consistent and crowd-pleasing to date. [Spring 2009, p.106]
Pitchfork
Although only one song passes the five-minute mark, Touchdown overflows with ideas imaginatively sifted from a range of genres, and feels honest, infectious, and personable from beginning to end.
Read Full Review >musicOMH.com
Touchdown is a concise, flab-free 35 minutes of music made by a band, which despite their collective CVs, probably wouldn't be picked out of a line-up.
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
There are fewer moments of reckless genre experiments on Touchdown than there were on past Brakes efforts, and when there are, they feel purposeful, like the band had some alt-country (or quick punk song) quota to fill.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
Oddly, the once-acerbic group is now best at being sweetly lovestruck. Now they need another facet that works as well.
Read Full Review >Uncut
Brakes, and this is not a criticism, are at their best when they do the opposite, pretending to be a nerdy indie-rock group while actually recording songs that are dumb as rocks. [May 2009, p.79]
Under The Radar
While not bringing many surprises, it will please existing fans and win more than a few new ones. [Spring 2009, p.64]
Alternative Press
brakesbrakesbrakes are as eclectic (musically) and clever (lyrically) as ever on their third album. [June 2009, p.98]
Hartford Courant
The band's third full-length, Touchdown, is more of a 10-yard pass than a score.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
