Crawdaddy (album)
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| Released | 1 October 1990[1] | |||
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| Genres | Pop punk, pop, rock | |||
| Length | 42:13 | |||
| Label | Epic 4670122 | |||
| Producer | Stephen Street | |||
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Crawdaddy is the second studio album by Welsh band the Darling Buds.[3][4] It was released on Epic Records in 1990 and contains the singles "Tiny Machine" and "Crystal Clear". The band supported the album by touring with Wire Train.[5]
Production
The album was produced by Stephen Street.[6] According to the liner notes for the 2023 box set Killing for Love, Jimmy Hughes replaced Richard Gray on drums; recording began at Justice Room, continued at Great Linford Manor and Maison Rouge, and was completed at Surrey Sound.[2] Lewis later said that Street encouraged the band to experiment and helped distinguish the album from its debut.[7]
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [8] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[9] |
Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post considered Crawdaddy less successful than the band's debut, but described its dance-rock and neo-psychedelic production as listenable and singled out "Crystal Clear".[6] Trouser Press wrote: "Some now-tired Blondie-isms remain, but this fine sophomore effort is mostly a forward-looking, groove-heavy delight."[10] The Tampa Bay Times deemed Crawdaddy "full of swirly, danceable melodies and infectious drumbeats."[11] The Record labeled Crawdaddy "an enticing mix of melodic pop enhanced with a hint of hard-driving guitar rock."[12]
Spin called the album "guitar-driven girl pop at its very finest."[13] The Boston Globe considered it "a terse pop-punk manifesto that conveys love's conflicting impulses in an ingratiating, semi-complex, pop context."[14] The Los Angeles Times wrote that the Darling Buds "thicken the pop with dense, twisted textures, lending [the album] an off-center quality."[15]
Track listing
All songs written by Harley Farr and Andrea Lewis
- "It Makes No Difference" (3:55)
- "Tiny Machine" (5:45)
- "Crystal Clear" (3:48)
- "Do You Have to Break My Heart" (3:18)
- "You Won't Make Me Die" (3:45)
- "Fall" (3:56)
- "A Little Bit of Heaven" (3:46)
- "Honeysuckle" (2:39)
- "So Close" (5:29)
- "The End of the Beginning" (3:33)
Charts
| Chart (1990–1991) | Peak position |
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| Australian Albums (ARIA)[16] | 166 |
References
- ↑ "New Albums: 1–5 October 1990". Music Week. September 29, 1990.
Darling Buds, The Crawdaddy Epic LP/MC 4670121/4670124 CD 4670122
- 1 2 Killing for Love: Albums, Singles, Rarities, Unreleased 1987–2017 (Media notes). Cherry Red Records. 2023. CRCDBOX152.
- ↑ True, Everett (May 26, 1990). "The Darling Buds: Petal Machine Music". Melody Maker. Vol. 66, no. 21. p. 36.
- ↑ Pareles, Jon (December 12, 1990). "Reviews/Music; Got 3 Minutes? Here's a Song". The New York Times.
- ↑ Peterson, Karla (November 25, 1990). "Maybe the bands are better in person". The San Diego Union-Tribune. p. E4.
- 1 2 Jenkins, Mark (December 7, 1990). "Buds, 9 Ways Use Latest Hip Trends". Weekend. The Washington Post. p. 20.
- ↑ Gourlay, Dom (August 21, 2015). ""We treat every gig as if it's our last one": DiS meets The Darling Buds". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved July 26, 2026.
- ↑ "Crawdaddy The Darling Buds". AllMusic.
- ↑ "Crawdaddy". Entertainment Weekly.
- ↑ "Darling Buds". Trouser Press.
- ↑ "Sount Bites". Tampa Bay Times.
- ↑ Jaeger, Barbara (November 29, 1990). "The Darling Buds, 'Crawdaddy'". The Record. p. D25.
- ↑ "Heavy Rotation". Spin. Spin Media LLC. November 23, 1990.
- ↑ Sullivan, Jim (November 1, 1990). "Record Review". Calendar. The Boston Globe. p. 9.
- ↑ Cromelin, Richard (November 30, 1990). "Bud's Pure Girl-Pop". Los Angeles Times. p. F14.
- ↑ "The Darling Buds ARIA Chart history complete to 2024". ARIA. Retrieved July 26, 2024 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.