So Long, See You Tomorrow

Submitted by Richard Norbury on 29 October 2014 - 10:03pm

We nominated albums from the Mercury Music Prize shortlist 2014

Cover:

Artist:

Bombay Bicycle Club

album-ID:

a_159

Nationality:

Year:

2 014

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0000

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Track-listing:

Overdone*It's Alright Now*Carry Me*Home By Now*Whenever, Wherever*Luna*Eyes Off You*Feel*Come To*So Long, See You Tomorrow

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_62

Now-num:

2 014

Spotify-URL:

49qPGOSoeIjG7bLP28bBLU

Short-title:

soLong

nominator-ID:

u_14

Meeting-date:

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

MusicBrainz-URL:

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Wikipedia-URL:

So_Long,_See_You_Tomorrow_(album)

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

so-long-see-you-tomorrow/bombay-bicycle-club

Discogs-URL:

Bombay-Bicycle-Club-So-Long-See-You-Tomorrow/master/651086

rdio-URL:

So_Long,_See_You_Tomorrow

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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Delhi Belly

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2-5

So why are they called Bombay Bicycle Club exactly? I’d expect something slightly eclectic / quaint with a touch of the exotic thrown in, they don’t deliver that sort of thing at all – even if they do deliver a good takeaway.

I do struggle to know what it is I am looking for in this sound. It’s all a bit middling, it doesn’t rock, isn’t dancey, doesn’t have good singing or scarcely any decent tunes. It’s just a bit bland and pointless. I’ve got two of their previous albums and I can barely remember those either. After this many plays and this amount of time I would have hoped to latch onto something. It’s just fairly pleasant / fairly forgettable background music and there is no greater crime than that.

There’s also a light touch of a Radiohead sound in there, which isn’t nice to hear. Overall nothing to recommend it and I’m left confused as to why they seem to be a popular, well regarded act.
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Stick to curries, you were good at them

What a pile of insipid, unmemorable tosh. Songs are either tuneful but weak and wishywashy, or untuneful and harsh, grating on the ears. This album needs to decide what it wants to be. Boring and uninspring.
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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Bombay Arsehole club

Why does this band exisit? They seem to have decided to make a band that people can watch in main stages at festivals whilst taking photos of themselves.

Bemused how this got a Mercury nomination. A modern sounding record i.e pretty shite
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury