Progressed (EP)

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Progressed
Progressed cover.png
Studio album (reissue) / EP by
Take That
Released13 June 2011
Recorded2009–2010
Studio
Genre
Length34:58
Label Polydor
Producer Stuart Price
Take That chronology
Progress
(2010)		Progressed
(2011)		 Progress Live
(2011)
Singles from Progressed
  1. "Love Love"
    Released: 11 May 2011
  2. "When We Were Young"
    Released: 11 July 2011

Progressed is the first extended play by English band Take That. The collection was released on 10 June 2011 and features eight previously unreleased tracks packaged alongside Take That's sixth studio album, Progress . It was preceded by the lead single "Love Love" on 11 May. One more single, "When We Were Young", was released from the EP.

Contents

Background

Initially it was believed that Robbie Williams would rejoin Take That in a short term capacity for the album Progress which debuted at number 1 in the UK and achieved similar success across Europe, and the subsequent record breaking Progress Live tour. On 19 May 2011 Take That officially confirmed the upcoming release of Progressed, due for release on 13 June 2011 in the United Kingdom, following the release of its first single, "Love Love". [1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Daily Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Digital Spy Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Daily Express Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [4]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Progressed received positive reviews from music critics upon its release.

Simon Gage of the Daily Express praised the new material and awarded it 5 stars stating that it is "essential listening" whilst commenting that "there has been a full-bodied love affair between Take That and the British public for so long it’s difficult to imagine them ever putting a foot wrong." [7]

Nick Levine of BBC Music similarly reviewed the album positively, concluding that the collection is "a fine Progress-complementing EP from the 10-legged national treasure." [8]

The Independent awarded Progressed 3 stars, calling the collection a "galumphing disco electropop whose swaggering synth riffs on 'Love Love' and occasional dubstep/electro moves, as on the intro to 'Man', are swept up by standard stomp-beats" [9] whilst Q believed it was "a bold step to add to the biggest selling album of the year but one that ultimately pays off". [10]

Gavin Martin of the Daily Mirror reviewed the new material positively, opining that "from the trad Barlow ballad setting of 'When We Were Young' through the evolutionary electro of 'Man', the new songs successfully extend the original album's balancing act between dignified nostalgia and commercially crafted experimentation." [11]

Heat reviewed the album positively, summarising: "all in all, we have to say this album is utterly weird and wonderful and the perfect extension to Take That's defiant Progress album of 2010. Progressed is a winner in our book." [12]

Lewis Corner of Digital Spy praised the new material and felt that "the self-penned collection proves once again why Take That's comeback was better than everyone else's – by out-growing the stereotypical boyband branding to become a group of credible and genuinely artistic group of musicians." [13]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams and produced by Stuart Price, with additional songwriting on "Eight Letters" by Midge Ure, Chris Cross, Warren Cann and Billy Currie

Progressed – CD1
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."When We Were Young"
  • Williams
  • Barlow
4:34
2."Man"
  • Barlow
  • Owen
4:39
3."Love Love"
  • Barlow
  • Owen
3:43
4."The Day the Work Is Done"
  • Owen
  • Barlow
4:04
5."Beautiful"Barlow4:14
6."Don't Say Goodbye"Barlow3:54
7."Aliens"
  • Donald
  • Williams
4:48
8."Wonderful World"Owen4:58
Progress – CD2 [14]
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
9."The Flood"
  • Williams
  • Barlow
4:49
10."SOS"
  • Owen
  • Williams
3:44
11."Wait"
  • Williams
  • Barlow
  • Donald
4:15
12."Kidz"
  • Owen
  • Barlow
4:42
13."Pretty Things"
  • Williams
  • Barlow
4:03
14."Happy Now"
  • Williams
  • Barlow
4:03
15."Underground Machine"Williams4:15
16."What Do You Want from Me?"Owen4:37
17."Affirmation"Donald3:54
18."Eight Letters"
  • Barlow
  • Williams
4:41
19."Flowerbed" (hidden track)Orange3:48

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. [15]

Musicians

Production

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2011)Peak
position
Danish Albums (Tracklisten) [16] 1
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts) [17] 21
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [18] 11
Irish Albums (IRMA) [19] [A] 2
Scottish Albums (OCC) [20] [A] 1
South Korean Albums (Gaon Chart) [21] 81
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [22] 46
UK Albums (OCC) [23] [A] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2011)Position
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [24] 57

Release history

RegionDateFormat
Ireland [25] 10 June 2011 CD, digital download
United Kingdom [1] 13 June 2011
Italy [26] 14 June 2011
Denmark [27] 15 June 2011
Australia [28] 17 June 2011
Germany [29]
Brazil [30] 28 June 2011

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