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Foot Of The Mountain

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Foot Of The Mountain

Album number 9 in 25 years of synthpop service from the Norwegian trio

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5.9

Label
We Love Music
UK Release date
27/07/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    FOTM is a fine specimen that those hidebound by Oldthink would consider oxymoronic: an adult pop record
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  2. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    It's hard to see even the most capable of pretenders becoming contenders to quite this degree, and this is a vital reminder of why a-ha are there to be cherished: the charm of being badly drawn boys might have broken them in the first place, but it's the adult artistry at their heart that's ensured they've remained the band that the Westlifes of the world will never be
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  3. 8.0 |   The Times

    On this evidence, there’s no reason to believe they can’t keep on doing it for 23 more years.
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  4. 8.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    Confirms the Norwegians' longevity as serious artists to the extent you would be forgiven for detecting artificial preservatives
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  5. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Perhaps too downbeat to make much of a chart impression, but it's really not bad.
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  6. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    A perfectly likeable collection of mid-tempo pop songs, but certainly not the apex of A-Ha’s career
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  7. 6.0 |   Uncut

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  8. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  9. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    If the function of Foot Of The Mountain is merely to provide some competent new material to pad out the live set, then it performs it without breaking a sweat. But if A-Ha want some tips on how a veteran pop act can enter middle age without drifting off into irrelevance, then they should get on the phone to a certain Mr G Barlow
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  10. 4.0 |   The Scotsman

    Various band members have spoken of the passion on this album – a bewildering claim, once you have heard the results. There is no fire in their clinical craft, nor even, at the other end of the scale, any Norwegian ice. Foot Of The Mountain is just tepid
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  11. 4.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Twenty-four years after their debut, A-Ha are making formulaic MOR— the synths being the only things that link them to their glory days
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  12. 4.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Crucially lacks youthful energy and edge
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  13. 4.0 |   The Independent

    As the title track attests, ""silence is everything"". Which is better advice than they perhaps intended.
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