''Pillow Lips'' is an album by the English band
Modern English, released in 1990. It contains a rerecorded version of "
I Melt with You
"I Melt with You" is a song by the British new wave band Modern English. The song, produced by Hugh Jones, was the second single from their 1982 album '' After the Snow''.
It became the band's most successful single, largely in the United ...
", which charted.
The album peaked at No. 135 on the
''Billboard'' 200. The band again broke up after promoting ''Pillow Lips''.
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Production
The album was written over a period of 18 months, and was produced by Pat Collier. Modern English recorded it as a trio.[
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Critical reception
''Entertainment Weekly
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'' wrote that "even the lightest, most eager and abandoned melodies on this album tap a deeper vein of feeling than most songs do." ''Trouser Press
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'' 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."
The ''Ottawa Citizen
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History
Established as ''The Bytown Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris, it was renamed the ''Citizen'' in 1851. The new ...
'' stated that "now with the band trimmed back to a trio, the sound is tighter, the spirit more lively, and the approach better conceived."[ The '']Los Angeles Times
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'' 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."The Dallas Morning News
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'' 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."AllMusic
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noted that "older fans of the band despaired of their new, slicker variant."
Track listing
References
External links
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Modern English (band) albums
1990 albums
TVT Records albums