My Dark Places (album)

My Dark Places
Studio album by
Television Personalities
Released27 February 2006
RecordedSoupstudio, London
Length53:15
LabelDomino WIGCD166
ProducerSimon Trought
Television Personalities chronology
Don't Cry Baby, It's Only a Movie
(1998) 		My Dark Places
(2006) 		Are We Nearly There Yet?
(2007)

My Dark Places is a 2006 album by the English Post-punk band the Television Personalities.[1] It was the band's first recording in 11 years, following 1998's Don't Cry Baby, It's Only a Movie.[2]

Reception

The critic Douglas Wolke described My Dark Places as "the band's saddest, most chaotic album. Much of it was improvised in the studio; at times, it recalls Mr. Barrett's edge-of-madness songs. Mr. Treacy's wobbly, desperate vocals suggest that he's on the verge of collapsing into sobs. In fact, he said, he did break down a few times during the recording, overwhelmed by making music for the first time in 11 years. "It's the way I like to work," he added. "I like to hurt when I'm working.""[3]

In their review, Rolling Stone wrote that "this influential Brit duo put together a low-fi collage of electronic gurgles and folky patter, with [the vocalist] spluttering stream-of-consciousness poetry in his snaggletoothed cockney croon."[2]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(72/100)[4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Pitchfork(6.7/10)[6]
Rolling Stone[2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Daniel Treacy

  1. "Special Chair" – 3:03
  2. "All the Young Children on Crack" – 3:13
  3. "Sick Again" – 2:15
  4. "Ex-Girlfriend Club" – 4:18
  5. "Dream the Sweetest Dreams" – 2:48
  6. "Velvet Underground" – 3:21
  7. "My Dark Places" – 3:00
  8. "I'm Not Your Typical Boy" – 3:51
  9. "You Kept Me Waiting Too Long" – 4:27
  10. "They'll Have to Catch Us First" – 2:14
  11. "She Can' Stop Traffic" – 3:43
  12. "Tell Me About Your Day" – 3:00
  13. "Then a Big Boy Came and Knocked It All Down" – 4:57
  14. "I Hope You're Happy Now" – 2:31
  15. "No More I Hate You's" – 2:47
  16. "There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye" – 3:47

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Lindsay, Cam (1 April 2006). "Television Personalities My Dark Places". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Television Personalities - My Dark Places". Rolling Stone. 14 April 2006. Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  3. ^ Wolk 2006.
  4. ^ "My Dark Places". metacritic.com. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  5. ^ "My Dark Places - Television Personalities | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  6. ^ Abebe, Nitsuh (16 March 2006). "Television Personalities - My Dark Places". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  7. ^ a b Meyer, Bill. "It Beats Prison". Chicago Reader, 20 April 2006. Retrieved 17 March 2026

Sources

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.