Hermione Hoby 

Take That: Progressed – review

Take That get out their big synths and dodgy stomping choruses on the follow-up to last year's comeback album Progress, says Hermione Hoby
  
  


This chaser to their enormous 2010 comeback album, Progress, brings more lovable nonsense from the manband whose recent misadventures include getting stranded in the palm of a giant robot (Howard and Mark had to be rescued during a recent show on their UK tour). The squelching synths and macho stomp of single "Love Love" set the standard: silliness, grandiosity and hefty if lyrically dubious choruses. "We are the aliens/ God loves the aliens," the lads sing on "Aliens", while an ET voice mutters the word "alien". A manband then, but still, in many ways, boys after all.

 

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