Beautiful Thing (Alexis Taylor album)
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| Beautiful Thing | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 20 April 2018 | |||
| Length | 47:45 | |||
| Label | Domino | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 6.7/10[1] |
| Metacritic | 71/100[2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [3] |
| Clash | 7/10[4] |
| DIY | [5] |
| Dork | [6] |
| Drowned in Sound | 6/10[7] |
| The Line of Best Fit | 7/10[8] |
| Loud and Quiet | 7/10[9] |
| MusicOMH | [10] |
| NME | [11] |
| Pitchfork | 6.8/10[12] |
Beautiful Thing is the fourth studio album by British musician Alexis Taylor. It was released on 20 April 2018, under Domino Recording Company.[13]
The album was produced by Tim Goldsworthy.[14]
On 22 March 2018, Alexis released the single "Oh Baby". It was produced by Joe Goddard, and features Alexis' Hot Chip band members.[15]
Alexis Taylor said of the single:
"[Oh Baby] is an exuberant love song, with a nod to the music I love by the likes of Alex Chilton and Paul McCartney. It was produced by Joe Goddard and features John Coxon on guitar and some Hot Chip bandmembers playing on it too. I wrote it in about the time it takes to listen to it, and the finished performance was recorded live in the studio.[16]
Critical reception
Beautiful Thing was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 71, based on 20 reviews.[2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 71 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 20 reviews.[17]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Dreaming Another Life" | 5:22 |
| 2. | "Beautiful Thing" | 5:35 |
| 3. | "Deep Cut" | 3:25 |
| 4. | "Roll on Blank Tapes" | 5:04 |
| 5. | "Suspicious of Me" | 3:31 |
| 6. | "A Hit Song" | 5:24 |
| 7. | "Oh Baby" | 3:25 |
| 8. | "There's Nothing to Hide" | 6:16 |
| 9. | "I Feel You" | 4:26 |
| 10. | "Out of Time" | 5:17 |