Love Travels at Illegal Speeds

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Love Travels at Illegal Speeds
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Studio album by
Released13 March 2006 (2006-03-13)
Recorded2005
Genre Alternative rock
Length50:40
LanguageEnglish
Label Parlophone
Producer Stephen Street
Graham Coxon chronology
Happiness in Magazines
(2004)
Love Travels at Illegal Speeds
(2006)
Burnt to Bitz: At the Astoria
(2006)
Singles from Love Travels at Illegal Speeds
  1. "Standing on My Own Again"
    Released: 27 February 2006
  2. "You & I"
    Released: 8 May 2006
  3. "I Can't Look at Your Skin / What's He Got?"
    Released: 17 July 2006
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic 81/100 [1]
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Love Travels At Illegal Speeds is the sixth solo album by Graham Coxon. It was released 13 March 2006 in the United Kingdom, the day after Coxon's 37th birthday. The album was produced by Stephen Street who also produced Coxon's previous album, Happiness in Magazines .

Contents

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Love Travels at Illegal Speeds has an average score of 81 based on 22 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [1]

Track listing

  1. "Standing on My Own Again" – 4:29
  2. "I Can't Look at Your Skin" – 3:35
  3. "Don't Let Your Man Know" – 2:54
  4. "Just a State of Mind" – 4:36
  5. "You & I" – 3:43
  6. "Gimme Some Love" – 2:32
  7. "I Don't Wanna Go Out" – 4:17
  8. "Don't Believe Anything I Say" – 5:26
  9. "Tell It Like It Is" – 4:02
  10. "Flights to the Sea (Lovely Rain)" – 3:25
  11. "What's He Got?" – 3:42
  12. "You Always Let Me Down" – 2:49
  13. "See a Better Day" – 5:10

Bonus tracks (Japan)

Bonus DVD (UK)

  1. "You Always Let Me Down"
  2. "Spectacular"
  3. "Girl Done Gone"
  4. "Don't Let Your Man Know"
  1. "Standing on My Own Again"
  2. "I Can't Look at Your Skin"
  3. "Freakin' Out"

Filmed and edited by Katie and Richard Harris

Release details

CountryDateLabelFormatCatalog
Japan8 March 2006 Toshiba-EMI CDTOCP-66525 / 4988006840171
United Kingdom13 March 2006Parlophone2LP350 5191 / 0946 3 50519 1 9
CD350 5192 / 0946 3 50519 2 6
CD/DVD354 1342 / 0946 3 54134 2 7
United States14 November 2006ParlophoneCD0946 3 50519 2 6

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References

  1. 1 2 "Reviews for Love Travels at Illegal Speeds". Metacritic . Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.