I think i'll review when i have the album in physical, i didnt actually start loving the Sugababes albumuntil i got the physical, so hopefully the same for GA.

The Promise 8/10

The Loving Kind 10/10

Rolling Back The Rivers 10/10

Love Is The Key 7/10

Turn To Stone 9/10

Untouchable 10/10

Fix Me Up 6/10

Love Is Pain 8/10

Miss You Bow Wow 10/10

Revolution In The Head 9/10

Live In The Country 7/10

We Wanna Party 8/10

 

Overall 9/10

 

Favourites:

The Loving Kind

Rolling Back The Rivers

Untouchable

Miss You Bow Wow

Edited October 28, 200816 yr by inland16

Methinks I'll do a proper review of this later on :o

Not a review as such, but here are my early ratings of the songs....

 

The Promise 10

The Loving Kind 8

Rolling Back The Rivers In Time 6

Love Is The Key 6

Turn To Stone 7

Untouchable 9

Fix Me Up 5

Love Is Pain 9

Miss You Bow Wow 7

Revolution In The Head 5

Live In The Country 5

We Wanna Party 7

 

Overall rating is exactly 7/10, good enough album, and i'll be keeping my 100% record of having GA's albums on CD with this ^_^

:o Despite having terrible album art, it's a lovely album. :wub: Perhaps I'll rate later.

 

Don't get all the disappointment tbh! o.O I've never been CRAZY over them (though always liked very much), but on first listen this is easily their best and most cohesive release yet.

This has been available for at LEAST 3 days and I didn't know about it?! :cry:

I like the album much more on second listen. Deffo a grower.

Yes I agree Jonny! It is a grower!

Yeah I think it has some growing on me to do

 

so far here's how i see it

 

The Promise 9

The Loving Kind 9

Rolling Back The Rivers In Time 9

Love Is The Key 7

Turn To Stone 8

Untouchable 10

Fix Me Up 6

Love Is Pain 10

Miss You Bow Wow 9

Revolution In The Head 7

Live In The Country 4

We Wanna Party 7

 

I mainly compared it to tangled up because in my opinion it is their best album

The thing about Out of Control is that while it clearly isnt as amazing as TU there are moments that certainly surpass it!

Untoucheable is AMAZING!

my ratings and short reviews:

 

The Promise 10 best lead single they've ever had, scrap that, best single they've ever had

The Loving Kind 10 Call The Shots' natural successor...amazing

Rolling Back The Rivers In Time 8.5 a real grower, really liking this and has good '3rd single potential'

Love Is The Key 7 growing on me but not as good as the first three songs

Turn To Stone 7 see above

Untouchable 8 wow, really long song, it doesn't feel like almost 7 minutes when you listen to it...it's risks like this that make them more interesting than Sugababes, if slightly less radio friendly usually

Fix Me Up 7 I hated this first time I listened to it but it's quickly growing on me now!

Love Is Pain 5.5 it's ok, quite filler-ish

Miss You Bow Wow 10 sounds like a 2008 update of Vanessa Amorosi's Absolutely Everybody right in the first part of the track, but then it storms into a classic Girls Aloud chorus, not sure that it would make a good single though, it's all over the place...still, it didn't hurt Biology did it!

Revolution In The Head 8 I like this a lot! It doesn't stand out particularly though

Live In The Country 8.5 hats off to them for trying drum 'n' bass again, this owes a lot to Sound Of The Underground actually...very oddball but I like it a lot!

We Wanna Party 8.5 it doesn't fit with the rest of the album particularly and would have been better suited to What Will The Neighbours Say? but I can't deny that it's a good track that's been going round my head all week!

 

overall: 9/10

 

three perfect songs, and a lot of very good songs...only Love Is Pain is particularly unmemorable, whilst Fix Me Up doesn't really gel with the rest of the album, but I do like it more and more now I hear it, and it breaks up the electro-pop sound quite well...for me, their best album since What Will The Neighbours Say, potentially their best album to date

10 | Miss You Bow Wow

10 | Untouchable

09 | The Promise

09 | Rolling Back...

08 | The Loving Kind

08 | Turn To Stone

*

05 | We Wanna Party

05 | Fix Me Up

05 | Revolution In The Head

04 | Love Is Pain

04 | Love Is The Key

04 | Live In The Country

 

Out Of Control > 6.8/10

 

It's odd - the first six songs in my rate are some of the best of GA's career - some risks taken, mostly paid off, some beautiful vocals, some big hooks. And then the last six are just awful - either totally generic or filled with poor vocals and lacking any hooks or anything of interest. As if they were made by an entirely different band for a different album!

 

Overall 6.8 seems too low for an album with six immense or near-immense songs on, so I'll say it's actually a 7.5 or so.

Now we have the CDQ here's my revised scores

 

01 | The Promise | 10/10

02 | The Loving Kind | 8/10

03 | Rolling Back The Rivers In Time | 7/10

04 | Love Is The Key | 7/10

05 | Turn To Stone | 9/10

06 | Untouchable | 10/10

07 | Fix Me Up | 9/10

08 | Love Is Pain | 6/10

09 | Miss You Bow Wow | 2/10

10 | Revolution In The Head | 7/10

11 | Live In The Country | 6/10

12 | We Wanna Party 6/10

 

Overall: 7.25/10 Really big improvement, obvious Grower-factor :D

 

I love GA have all the albums but really dont like the promise at all! So im slightly worried for the rest of the album :(

So im slightly worried for the rest of the album

The rest of the album is nothing like 'The Promise', dont worry.

The Promise| 10/10

The Loving Kind| 09/10

Rolling Back The Rivers In Time| 08/10

Love Is The Key| 08/10

Turn To Stone| 09/10

Untouchable| 11/10

Fix Me Up| 8.5/10

Love Is Pain| 7.5/10

Miss You Bow Wow| 06/10

Revolution In The Head| 08/10

Live In The Country| 02/10

We Wanna Party| 07/10

 

Only real c**k up is "Live In The Country" which really is awful. "Untouchable" = GA's best song ever for me. Imagine a Radio Edit <3 singleplease.

10 The Promise

09 The Loving Kind

06 Rolling Back The Rivers In Time

07 Love Is The Key

06 Turn To Stone

10 Untouchable

06 Fix Me Up

06 Love Is Pain

09 Miss You Bow Wow

06 Revolution In The Head

06 Live In The Country

03 We Wanna Party

Awww :( I love LITC :wub: But MYBW is still my fave on the album :heart:

LITC wouldn't be so bad but those farm animal noise thing just take the p***.

 

Everyone seems to be in agreement with Untouchable though :wub:

Not everyone. :P I don't find in "Untouchable" anything interesting. The best songs are "Miss You Bow Wow" and "Turn To Stone", also better than average are "The Promise", "The Loving Kind", "Love Is Pain", "Revolution In The Head", "Live In The Country". 'Fix Me Up' - What Is That??? O_o Awful. Other songs are just average.

 

The whole album is actually good, it includes all things when you want just to relax with the good mood. 8/10 from me.

9/10 'The Promise' - Excellent and we all know this by now. A real grower and got all the makings to be a GA classic.

9/10 'The Loving Kind' - LOVE IT!!! Hope the rumours are true and that this is the next single, could be a second number one!

10/10 'Rolling Back The Rivers In Time' - BEST SONG ON THE ALBUM - Love the opening first few lines. Hope it gets released.

2.5/10 'Love Is The Key' - Horrible!! Really dont like it. Seems all over the place.

6.5/10 'Turn To Stone' - This is good and nice enough, doesnt really go anywhere though which is a shame as it does show potential in parts.

8/10 'Untouchable' - I LOVE it - Great song and i can imagine chillin out by a pool on holiday listening to this, a tad too long though...

1/10 'Fix Me Up' - Shocking - Why this is on there i will never know - Doesnt fit in with the rest of the album and feels so out of place.

7/10 'Love Is Pain' - Good and feel this could be a real grower - 4th single material too!!

5/10 'Miss You Bow Wow' - Not instant with me but hopefully will grow.

4/10 'Revolution In The Head' - It could be a grower but right now it just seems average.

7/10 'Live In The Country' - Like this - Not great but quite fun. What's with all the animal noises though????

4/10 'We Wanna Party' - Not liking this at all at the moment - Why on earth the chose to cover this i really dont have any idea!!

 

 

 

Overall 7.5/10 - Thinks its quite good, there are a few classics on there but a few stinkers also - I do like it but not as good as TU or WWNS.