Description
Gossip – Music For Men; A Joyful Noise / Two Original Albums / Sony Music 2x Audio CD, Box Set 2013 / 88883742752
UPC 888837427524
A Joyful Noise is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Gossip, released on May 11, 2012, by Columbia Records. The album was produced by Xenomania founder Brian Higgins.
A Joyful Noise received generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 60, based on 24 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews". Andy Gill of The Independent gave the album four out of five stars, writing that "the involvement of Brian Higgins on A Joyful Noise enables the group to break new ground with confidence". The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan gave the album three out of five stars and stated that "it's Girls Aloud producer Higgins to the rescue, with a sound influenced by Abba and Madonna. Having said that, Gossip—especially Beth Ditto, in waspishly fine voice here—seem very much at home with it." However, Priya Elan of NME felt that "[g]ood moments are squandered by unsatisfying choruses and/or weak lyrics." The Independent on Sunday's Simon Price expressed that after a few years of career, Ditto "already feels like a footnote", adding that the band pairing up with Higgins "should be a stroke of genius, but Higgins has caught Ditto & co at a point where they appear to have disastrously lost their fire."
| Label: | Sony Music – 88883742752 |
|---|---|
| Series: | Two Original Albums |
| Format: |
2 x CD, Album, Box Set, Compilation
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2013 |
| Genre: | Electronic, Rock, Pop |
| Style: | Alternative Rock |
Tracklist:
| Music For Men | |||
| 1-1 | Dimestore Diamond | ||
| 1-2 | Heavy Cross | ||
| 1-3 | 8th Wonder | ||
| 1-4 | Love Long Distance | ||
| 1-5 | Pop Goes The World | ||
| 1-6 | Vertical Rhythm | ||
| 1-7 | Men In Love | ||
| 1-8 | For Keeps | ||
| 1-9 | 2012 | ||
| 1-10 | Love And Let Love | ||
| 1-11 | Four Letter Word | ||
| 1-12 | Spare Me From The Mold | ||
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A Joyful Noise |
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| 2-1 | Melody Emergency | ||
| 2-2 | Perfect World | ||
| 2-3 | Get A Job | ||
| 2-4 | Move In The Right Direction | ||
| 2-5 | Casualties Of War | ||
| 2-6 | Into The Wild | ||
| 2-7 | Get Lost | ||
| 2-8 | Involved | ||
| 2-9 | Horns | ||
| 2-10 | I Won't Play | ||
| 2-11 | Love In A Foreign Place |
