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"In Your Own Sweet Time" is the fifth full length studio album by Scottish rock band The Fratellis. The album was produced by Tony Hoffer and released on 16th March 2018 on the Cooking Vinyl label.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 65, based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Nearly 12 years since the release of their revered debut Costello Music, the Fratellis continue to be a band that sounds like they are having immense fun and enjoying the opportunities to perform, write, and record. On their fifth album In Your Own Sweet Time, they lightheartedly explore new genres and stylistic cues, pulling in a lot of playfulness, and deliver hook after hook across an instantly enjoyable set of tracks.
The same impulsively rapturous songs about love, drugs, sex, and storytelling the band has told on previous albums remain, but with a spontaneity that leads their indie roots into conversing with danceable beats, rhythms, and inventive explorations of worldly music. Ultimately, the band's performances, from rhythm guitars to piano additions, produce a lively, fun, record that thrills and excites from start to finish. Sometimes there are recognizable and cliched rhythms and softly performed lead solos, but these only intensify the solid work put forward by the band and this album. In Your Own Sweet Time reverberates around self-deprecation in places, but mostly humanizing and more often humorous with lyrical wordplay and out of place phrasings.
Altogether, In Your Own Sweet Time, is a solid effort from a seasoned band, and promises more spontaneous musical performances for the band ahead, be it on tour promoting this record or in any follow-ups. The Fratellis share a lot of fun on this record and it's worth listening to for that sheer delight.
Reviewed by Richard Driver for popmatters.com.
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