Bring On the Comets

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Bring On The Comets
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Studio album by
VHS or Beta
ReleasedAugust 28, 2007
Genre
Length43:46
Label Astralwerks
Producer Brandon Mason [2]
VHS or Beta chronology
Night on Fire
(2004)		Bring On The Comets
(2007)		Diamonds and Death
(2011)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 53/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
The A.V. Club D+ [4]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
LAS Magazine7.7/10 [7]
Pitchfork 4.6/10 [1]
Prefix Magazine5/10 [8]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Spin Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]

Bring on the Comets is the third studio album by American indie rock band VHS or Beta. It was released on August 28, 2007 on Astralwerks. [11]

Contents

Release

On March 26, 2007, VHS or Beta announced they were releasing their third studio album. [2]

Tour

In support of the album, the band went on tour of North America, starting on August 2, 2007 at Popscene in San Francisco, and finished up at Headliners Music Hall in Louisville, Kentucky on September 29, 2007. [11]

Critical reception

Bring On the Comets was met with "mixed or average" 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 53 based on 12 reviews. [3]

In a review for AllMusic, critic reviewer Jason Lymangrover wrote: "The grooves that were once the cornerstone for their early work are much less noticeable here, as they've been draped with grandiose, sweeping choruses. Becoming more concise and memorable songwriters is a good thing, but now the result is too much like straight-up '80s pop sprinkled with dance-punk sensibilities. The songs aren't remarkable and they aren't bad, they're just there." [5] Annie Zaleski of Alternative Press describe the album as "quite a bit slicker and sonically feels as if it could fill an arena-but lacks the personality of the prior album." [6] Nate Patrin of Pitchfork said: "Bring on the Comets doesn't prove that good rock is harder to make than good disco, just that it's a lot easier to make boring." [1]

Writing for Spin , writer Stacey Anderson wrote: "Bring on the Comets is ultimately a bland regression. Percolating synthesizers bleed into the album's unrelenting mid-tempo beat, as Craig Pfunder mewls like Robert Smith, highbred Sloane-y accent and all. Even the mix is tinny, like a fuzzy trip through an unremarkable memory." [10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Craig Pfunder, unless noted

Bring On the Comets track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Euglama" 1:08
2."Love in My Pocket" 3:13
3."She Says" 3:31
4."Can't Believe a Single Word" 3:43
5."Burn it All Down" 3:37
6."Take it or Leave it" 4:08
7."Alpha Theta"Mark Palgy0:42
8."Bring on the Comets"
  • Mark Guidry
  • Palgy
  • Pfunder
4:03
9."Fall Down Lightly"
  • Guidry
  • Palgy
  • Pfunder
4:01
10."We Could Be One"
  • Guidry
  • Palgy
  • Pfunder
5:11
11."Time Stands Still" 4:05
12."The Stars Where We Came From" 6:24
iTunes bonus track (Australian version) [12]
No.TitleLength
13."Army of None"3:38

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Patrin, Nate (September 10, 2007). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "VHS or Beta finishing up new album". Prefix Magazine. March 26, 2007. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Bring on the Comets by VHS or Beta". Metacritic . Retrieved April 13, 2021.
  4. ↑ Heller, Jason (August 28, 2007). "VHS or Beta: Bring on the Comets". The A.V. Club . Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  5. 1 2 Lymangrover, Jason. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Zaleski, Annie (November 28, 2007). "Alternative Press review". Alternative Press . Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  7. ↑ Weiss, Dan (September 7, 2007). "VHS or Beta: Bring On The Comets". LAS Magazine. Archived from the original on September 20, 2007. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  8. ↑ Michael Cusumano, Joel (September 18, 2007). "Prefix Magazine Review". Prefix Magazine. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  9. ↑ Hoard, Christian (September 4, 2007). "Rolling Stone Review". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on September 17, 2007. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  10. 1 2 Anderson, Stacey (September 28, 2007). "Spin Magazine Review". Spin . Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  11. 1 2 "VHS or Beta bring on new album, touring". Prefix Magazine. July 30, 2007. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  12. ↑ "Bring on the Comets by VHS or Beta". Apple Music . Retrieved April 13, 2021.
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