Pillow Lips

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Pillow Lips
File:Pillow Lips.jpg
Studio album by
Modern English
Released1990
Genre
Length32:40
LabelTVT[2]
ProducerPat Collier
Modern English chronology
Stop Start
(1986) 		Pillow Lips
(1990) 		Everything's Mad
(1996)

Pillow Lips is an album by the English band Modern English, released in 1990.[3][4] It contains a rerecorded version of "I Melt with You", which charted.[5] The album peaked at No. 135 on the Billboard 200.[6] The band again broke up after promoting Pillow Lips.[7]

Production

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The album was written over a period of 18 months, and was produced by Pat Collier.[8][9][10] Modern English recorded it as a trio.[11]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[12]
Calgary HeraldB+[11]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[7]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album GuideStarStarHalf starFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[13]
Ottawa CitizenStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[14]
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarHalf starFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[15]

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "even the lightest, most eager and abandoned melodies on this album tap a deeper vein of feeling than most songs do."[16] Trouser Press thought that "the diverse record contains some easy-to-like bounce-pop ('Beauty', 'Care About You') but other tracks either drift along listlessly (like the enervated title tune) or sag under clichéd lyrics ('Life's Rich Tapestry'...) and equally unimaginative melodies."[17]

The Ottawa Citizen stated that, "now with the band trimmed back to a trio, the sound is tighter, the spirit more lively, and the approach better conceived."[14] The Los Angeles Times concluded that the album was "recorded without a permanent lead guitarist in the group and suffers accordingly, with a thin, techno-pop approach somewhere between OMD and late-period Sparks."[18] The Dallas Morning News determined that, "having provided us a near-perfect pop song, the group now delivers a hodgepodge that includes everything from neo-Modern English to country to watered-down Big Audio Dynamite."[19]

AllMusic noted that "older fans of the band despaired of their new, slicker variant."[12]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."I Melt with You"4:15
2."Life's Rich Tapestry"4:06
3."Beauty"2:26
4."You're Too Much"2:31
5."Beautiful People"3:11
6."Care About You"2:57
7."Let's All Dream"2:37
8."Coming Up for Air"3:46
9."Pillow Lips"3:31
10."Take Me Away"3:44

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