Beautiful Thing (Alexis Taylor album)

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Beautiful Thing
Alexis Taylor - Beautiful Thing.png
Studio album by
Alexis Taylor
Released20 April 2018 (2018-04-20)
Length47:45
Label Domino
Producer
Alexis Taylor chronology
Listen With(out) Piano
(2017)		Beautiful Thing
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.7/10 [1]
Metacritic 71/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Clash 7/10 [4]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Dork Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Drowned in Sound 6/10 [7]
The Line of Best Fit 7/10 [8]
Loud and Quiet 7/10 [9]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Pitchfork 6.8/10 [12]

Beautiful Thing is the fourth studio album by British musician Alexis Taylor. It was released on 20 April 2018, under Domino Recording Company. [13]

Contents

The album was produced by Tim Goldsworthy. [14]

Singles

On 22 March 2018, Alexis released the single "Oh Baby". It was produced by Joe Goddard, and features Alexis' Hot Chip band members. [15]

Alexis Taylor said of the single:

"[Oh Baby] is an exuberant love song, with a nod to the music I love by the likes of Alex Chilton and Paul McCartney. It was produced by Joe Goddard and features John Coxon on guitar and some Hot Chip bandmembers playing on it too. I wrote it in about the time it takes to listen to it, and the finished performance was recorded live in the studio. [16]

Critical reception

Beautiful Thing was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 71, based on 20 reviews. [2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 71 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 20 reviews. [17]

Track listing

Beautiful Thing track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Dreaming Another Life"5:22
2."Beautiful Thing"5:35
3."Deep Cut"3:25
4."Roll on Blank Tapes"5:04
5."Suspicious of Me"3:31
6."A Hit Song"5:24
7."Oh Baby"3:25
8."There's Nothing to Hide"6:16
9."I Feel You"4:26
10."Out of Time"5:17

Personnel

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