The Midnight Beast (album)
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| The Midnight Beast | ||||
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| Released | 9 August 2012 | |||
| Genre | Comedy rap, pop rap | |||
| Length | 53:10 (digital/streaming), 52:48 (CD) | |||
| Label | Sounds Like Good | |||
| Producer | Stefan Abingdon | |||
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The Midnight Beast is the self-titled debut album by the UK comedy pop rap band The Midnight Beast, released on August 9, 2012 through their independent label Sounds Like Good. It was released after the first season of the band's sitcom The Midnight Beast had aired, and also acts as its soundtrack companion. The album was released on CD and to digital music retailers.
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| Source | Rating |
| NME | 6/10[1] |
| Metro | 2/5[2] |
The Midnight Beast received mixed to negative reviews. Mark Beaumont of NME praised the band for its musicality - he described the song "Begging" as being "[catchier than] the clap at a Mayan sun death shag frenzy" - but criticized the album's 'sporadically funny' comedic nature, with "Life is a Musical" and "Censorshit" being singled out as 'misfires'.[1] Metro's Amy Dawson said that despite its "moments of roguish and puerile fun", the album "[fell] short of both Flight of the Concords' straight-faced wit and The Lonely Island's slick vulgarity".[2] Popjustice likened the album to "a pancake liberally smeared with human shit" and called the band "a very low-quality pop-cultural entity"; they were so displeased with the album that they removed all of the articles they did about The Clik Clik, a band that members Stefan Abingdon and Dru Wakely had previously been in, to completely distance themselves of any association with the Midnight Beast.[3]
