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The Duckworth Lewis Method

The Duckworth Lewis Method

The Duckworth Lewis Method

A cricket themed album from Irish band formed by The Devine Comedy's Neil Hannon and Thomas Walsh of Pugwash

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Divine Comedy
UK Release date
06/06/2009
  1. 10.0 |   The Independent

    With wry intelligence allied to diverse musical imagination, and an obvious affection for their subject, Hannon and Walsh have crafted one of the year's very best albums
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  2. 10.0 |   musicOMH

    A set of catchy tunes punctuated with very English observations. For this isn't just an album about the thwack of willow on leather - it recognises a form of Englishness in danger of falling by the wayside. With not a dot ball or an overthrow... The Duckworth Lewis Method is an unqualified success
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  3. 8.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    Of the handful of songs previously written about cricket, Hannon and Walsh have said none truly captures the sport. It prompted an internet kerfuffle but the claim was accurate, and has been corrected by Gentlemen & Players, their irresistible trundle through the sport's history. It is, for my money, the best song about cricket yet made. Played, boys, oh well played
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  4. 8.0 |   The Times

    Anyone averse to cricket would be forgiven for thinking there’s nothing among all this to detain them. But they would be wrong. The Duckworth Lewis Method is no more an album about cricket than the Indiana Jones films were about archaeology. Sitting around in the sun on the tenuous pretext that you’re taking part in some “sport” has never had a finer soundtrack
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  5. 8.0 |   The Times

    A novelty album, sure, but irresistibly content in its own barmy pop-cricket universe
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  6. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    From sun-kissed 1960s pop to 1930s music-hall panto, Duckworth and Lewis cover all musical bases (oops, a baseball term just crept in there), all the time keeping their eye firmly on that little leather ball
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  7. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    Those of you who couldn't give a toss about cricket will be delighted to hear that there's plenty of decent pop music on offer
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  8. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    One of the summer's most delightful albums… a record of beautifully constructed songs - pastiches, yes, but so perfectly rendered as to be melt-in-your-mouth lovely
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  9. 7.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    From Kinksy shuffles to Beatles baroquerie via glam-beat overkill, delivered in affectless musical-hall deadpan
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  10. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It is hard to really know if there is a place for cricket concept albums. That is not to say that if you aren't a cricket fan that you won't find anything to enjoy – some tracks stand out regardless of concept, in fact some aren't even that rigidly bound by it, see 'The Sweet Spot' and 'The Nightwatchman'. Let us all hope that some of this album, even if it does nothing else, will have put the use of that ghastly 10cc song well and truly in its coffin.
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  11. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    That its most obvious antecedent is The Village Green Preservation Society should come as no surprise. The rose-tinted nostalgia of the lyrics and the mellow harpsichord singalong of Gentlemen and Players would fit easily on The Kinks' classic – lightweight as a size three kids' bat, but as easy on the ear as leather on willow on a sunny day
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  12. 6.0 |   Uncut

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  13. 6.0 |   Q

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  14. 4.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  15. 4.0 |   NME

    The record lurches between clichéd harpsichord-driven ditties and cringeworthy soft-rock pop songs that rely on the inventiveness of their concept over the originality of their music
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  16. 4.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    It is an ambitious blend of Flanders & Swann mingling with Gilbert & Sullivan on 'Jiggery Pokery', possibly the first song written about a single ball bowled in an Ashes series
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