Insult to Injury (The Nightingales album)

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Insult to Injury
Nightingales insult.jpg
Studio album by
Released2008
Recorded17–23 March 2008
Genre Alternative, rock
Label Klangbad Records
Producer Hans-Joachim Lemler & The Nightingales
The Nightingales chronology
What's Not To Love?
(2007)
Insult to Injury
(2008)
No Love Lost
(2012)

Insult to Injury is the sixth studio album by British band The Nightingales. The album was recorded in March 2008 at the Faust Studio, Scheer, Germany.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I Am Grimaldi"
  2. "Old Fruit"
  3. "Double Whammy Bar"
  4. "Brownhills United's Tattooed Southpaw"
  5. "Little Lambs"
  6. "Kirklees Ken"
  7. "Big Bones"
  8. "Crap Lech"
  9. "Former Florist to The Queen"
  10. "The Kiss of Life"
  11. "Down With The Blue Lobsters"
  12. "Watch Your Posture"

Personnel

Reception

Metacritic, a review aggregator that assigns a normalized score, rated it 59/100 based on four reviews. [1] Ben Thompson of The Observer rated it 4/5 stars and called it Lloyd's "freshest and most subtly intoxicating work to date." [2]

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References

  1. "Insult To Injury". Metacritic . Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  2. Thompson, Ben (14 February 2009). "Rock review: The Nightingales, Insult to Injury". The Observer . Retrieved 20 April 2014.