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Welcome To The Walk Alone

The Rumble Strips

Welcome To The Walk Alone

Mark Ronson produced second album from London based indie pop soul band

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6.4

Label
Island
UK Release date
13/06/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    The more sophisticated the music, the more boyishly excited the band sound to be playing it – a pleasure that proves infectious
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  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  3. 8.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  4. 7.0 |   Clash

    The record feels like a sequence of movie scenes from start to finish: opener ‘The Walk Alone’ could accompany footage of Sean Connery as 007, perving on bikini-clad women outside a hotel pool. ‘London’ sounds like the merry-go-round scene from Mary Poppins – milk, cookies and vomit inducing innocence. ‘Running on Empty’ goes a bit ‘Greased Lightning’, but still makes it home in time for supper
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  5. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    A brilliantly crafted, hook-laden collection of songs that may be slightly too enthralled with '60s guitar pop to really make an impact in an '80s loving music scene, but deserves to be heard by a wider audience than their debut. Having Mark Ronson's name attached may seem like an obvious way of getting people to notice them
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  6. 7.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Its use of Walker Brothers baritone and Love-style brass, production courtesy of Mark Ronson and strings from Owen Pallett, sounds not dissimilar to the Last Shadow Puppets album
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  7. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It wouldn’t be surprising if Mark Ronson's involvement as producer proves to be a divisive factor in people’s reaction to this record, perhaps complaining that it’s just more crass pop-up sounds hacked from musical history with his magpie ears. But that would be unfair
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  8. 6.0 |   The Scotsman

    There is something very cheering about The Rumble Strips' adherence to the London likely lad persona at a time when all their brooding indie boy peers are re intoning gloomily about student loans
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  9. 6.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    The band and Ronson have aimed for a widescreen panoramic sound, falling just short of the truly big picture
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  10. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    Their first album was widely regarded as being in thrall to Dexy's Midnight Runners but this second effort has moved from beneath Kevin Rowland's skirts and revealed the group as brave pioneers on the trail of wide-screen music for modern youth
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  11. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    A strong set of songs and an even stronger set of performances. The elements come together best on the slow-building title track and on Dem Girls, where Charlie Waller confirms that he’s a singer to be reckoned with
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  12. 6.0 |   The Times

    Mark Ronson’s uncluttered production works to his charges’ favour, most notably on the cinematically lovelorn title track
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  13. 6.0 |   Uncut

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  14. 6.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    A melodramatic 21st-century Dexys Midnight Runners. This is no bad thing
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  15. 6.0 |   Spin

    The vast majority of this elegant Brit jangle feels a bit recycled.
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  16. 4.0 |   NME

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