The Others (The Others album)
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| The Others | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 31 January 2005 | |||
| Length | 44:44 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 52/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Drowned in Sound | 6/10[3] |
| The Guardian | [4] |
| Playlouder | [5] |
| Stylus Magazine | F[6] |
The Others is the debut studio album by English band The Others. The album was released on 31 January 2005 in the UK on Mercury Records. On its release it was awarded 8/10 from the NME and 10/10 from Vice Magazine. In 2010, Q included the album in their list "The Fifty Worst Albums Ever!"[7]
The Others was met with "mixed or average" 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 52 based on 9 reviews.[1]
In a review for AllMusic, Jason Damas wrote: "The Others' eponymous debut borrows from the sneering, dingy punk rock of the Sex Pistols, but slowed down and delivered more menacingly while opting for a scathing, unpretentious, and populist take on nu-new wave." Damas went on to say the tracks sound "unnecessarily limp and under-written, rendering the entire affair a mere display of this band's potential."[2]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Lackey" | 3:31 |
| 2. | "In the Background" | 2:51 |
| 3. | "William" | 3:15 |
| 4. | "Almanac" | 2:56 |
| 5. | "How I Nearly Lost You" | 3:43 |
| 6. | "Stan Bowles" | 3:14 |
| 7. | "Community 853" | 3:39 |
| 8. | "Psychovision" | 3:43 |
| 9. | "Johan" | 4:53 |
| 10. | "Southern Glow" | 3:35 |
| 11. | "This Is for the Poor" | 4:23 |
| 12. | "Darren Daniel David" | 4:57 |
| Total length: | 44:44 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 13. | "Boy Is a Girl" | |
| 14. | "King Prawn" |
