| My Dark Places | ||||
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| Released | 27 February 2006 | |||
| Recorded | Soupstudio, London | |||
| Length | 53:15 | |||
| Label | Domino WIGCD166 | |||
| Producer | Simon Trought | |||
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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]
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]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (72/100) [4] |
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| AllMusic | |
| Pitchfork | (6.7/10) [6] |
| Rolling Stone | |
All tracks composed by Daniel Treacy