Funny Looking Angels

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Funny Looking Angels
Smith & Burrows - Funny Looking Angels cover.jpg
Studio album by
Smith & Burrows
Released25 November 2011 (2011-11-25)
Length34:47
Label Kitchenware
Singles from Funny Looking Angels
  1. "Funny Looking Angels"
    Released: 2011
  2. "When the Thames Froze"
    Released: 12 December 2011

Funny Looking Angels is a collaborative Christmas album recorded by Smith & Burrows, a band made up of English musicians Tom Smith (Editors) and Andy Burrows (I Am Arrows, Razorlight, ex-We Are Scientists). It was released on 25 November 2011 through Kitchenware Records.

Contents

The album contains four covers: "Only You" by Yazoo, Black's "Wonderful Life", "Funny Looking Angels" by Delta, and "On and On" by Longpigs. [1]

Promotion

"Funny Looking Angels" was released as the lead single to promote the album. [1]

The second single, "When the Thames Froze", was released on 12 December 2011. [2] It has peaked at number 32 on the UK Indie Chart, [3] and entered national charts in Belgium and the Netherlands. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 63/100 [5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Clash 7/10 [7]
Drowned in Sound 7/10 [8]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
NME 1/10 [10]

Funny Looking Angels received generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 63, based on 9 reviews. [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."In the Bleak Midwinter"2:12
2."When the Thames Froze"5:04
3."As the Snowflakes Fall"3:31
4."Funny Looking Angels"3:35
5."Wonderful Life"4:22
6."Only You"3:16
7."On and On"4:06
8."Rosslyn"1:42
9."This Ain't New Jersey"4:50
10."The Christmas Song" (featuring Agnes Obel)2:14
Total length:34:47

Charts

Charts (2011)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [11] 14
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [12] 81
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [13] 32
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [14] 87
UK Album Downloads (OCC) [15] 22
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [16] 8

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  15. ↑ "Official Album Downloads Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
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