| No More Apologies | ||||
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Label | Setanta [1] | |||
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| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |   [2] |
No More Apologies is an album from Irish rock band A House. [3] Released in 1996, it was A House's final studio album. [4]
No More Apologies was generally well received, but reviewers tended to see it as an explicit swansong. Q Magazine gave it four stars (from five) recommending it "for all who love beauty best when it is bruised". [5] NME was much less enthusiastic, awarding 5/10 to "by no means a bad album" which nonetheless seemed flat compared to the "near-masterpiece" that was its predecessor, Wide-Eyed and Ignorant . The Irish Times described an album by a band in a "relaxed and resigned mood ... accepting their fate and lack of fortune with a philosophical air," but still capable of the odd "barbed word" and subtle touches in melody and guitar. [6] AllMusic, awarding the album 3 stars, likewise notes "a band coming to grips with its place in the universe" although "in a better world Couse and company would have become the stars they deserved [sic]" while in the real world, "listeners were still lucky to have them". [7] An elegiacal article in the Irish Times later in the year said "A House is far more important than U2," albeit in the rather special sense that A House's achievement was to survive as a properly Irish rock band which did not disappear, like so many others, under U2's shadow, and actually succeeded in producing a series of "evolving albums culminating" in No More Apologies. The article also notes almost unanimous praise for No More Apologies in Ireland, with the exception of Hot Press , and that Les Inrockuptibles in France had nominated it for album of the year. [8] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called it "a disappointingly mediocre swansong for such an interesting band." [2]
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