Painting It Red | ||||
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Released | 9 October 2000[1] | |||
Genre | Indie rock, pop rock | |||
Label | Ark 21 | |||
Producer | Jon Kelly, Paul Heaton | |||
The Beautiful South chronology | ||||
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Singles from Painting It Red | ||||
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AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Robert Christgau | B+[3] |
Pitchfork Media | 6.1/10[4] |
Painting It Red is the seventh album by the Beautiful South, released in 2000.[5] A concept album about impending middle age, Painting it Red is among the band's longest. A two-disc UK bonus version contains 20 tracks. The American release on Ark21 has only 17 tracks.
The album made it to number 2 in the charts, and two singles were produced: "Closer Than Most", which reached number 22 in September, and the double A-side "The River"/"Just Checkin'", which reached number 59 in December.[6]
Exclaim! wrote that the album "shows the strains of a band running out of new ideas [although] the music is certainly not terrible and there are good moments, such as 'Baby Please Go' or '10,000 Feet'."[7] The Washington Post wrote that it "does occasionally muster an assertive beat--in part thanks to the assistance of Norman 'Fatboy Slim' Cook, who formerly played with Heaton and Hemingway in the Housemartins."[8]
All songs written by Paul Heaton and David Rotheray.
As was their usual practice, the Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums.
from "Closer Than Most" (CD1)
from "Closer Than Most" (CD2)
from "The River/Just Checkin'" (CD1)
from "Just Checkin'"/The River" (CD2)