Tangled Up

Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
Critic Score
Based on 9 reviews
2007 Ratings: #546 / 717
User Score
Based on 64 ratings
2007 Rank: #154
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
AllMusic
Girls Aloud albums always come brimming with ideas, but while they could previously leave the overall collection as something of a mishmash, here they succeed as a perfectly constructed whole without becoming a tedious homogeny.
80
DIY
Whether it’s their reality TV origins or maybe they weren’t expected to get this far, Girls Aloud have given us yet more magnificent 21st Century pop and we should rejoice.
80
The Guardian
It's witty, diverse, experimental and viscerally thrilling: what more do you want pop music to be?
70
NME
The magic dust they sprinkled on the Top 40 has now fallen into the fabric of music and ‘Tangled Up’ will continue the trend.
40
Drowned in Sound

Tangled Up is a compendium of stupid fucking ideas for songs.

musicbox
80

I genuinely think this is their best album. It feels like a real evolution from their previous records, the production is modern and slick and they sound amazing together. It's very consistent and some of the tracks are in their top 10 greatest ever (Can't Speak French is their best song in my opinion). It's pop music but different from what everyone was doing, it feels like they took a chance and did something new.

Highlights: Can't Speak French, Sexy! No No No… and Call the Shots.

gnataugust
82

no wonder those greatest hits singles sucked, they had to conserve energy there so they could serve cunt here.

it seems that girls aloud (or more accurately their producers but yk [edit: i just realised this is the closest i ever got to mentioning xenomania wtf]) decided on a complete and total NMIXX Change Up for their fourth album, with the more rock-influenced sound they had been building to prior all-but-entirely ditched. in it's place, "tangled up" pulls from the more abrasive ... read more

LucasGranado
82

Começando 2023 revisitando clássicos, conheci há pouco tempo o trabalho dessas divas e posso enxergá-las como grandes referências para o pop britânico em muitos trabalhos de outros artistas que surgiram posteriormente. Tangled Up, apesar de estar muito preso ao seu tempo, é um álbum com boas faixas pop e muito divertido, apresenta versatilidade sendo coeso caminhando entre o disco/dance e experimentando outras sonoridades de forma despojada. ... read more

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Track List

1Call the Shots
3:45
90
2Close to Love
3:53
82
3Sexy! No No No...
3:18
86
4Girl Overboard
4:11
81
5Can't Speak French
4:04
85
6Black Jacks
4:20
77
7Control of the Knife
3:51
75
8Fling
4:13
73
9What You Crying For
3:44
83
10I'm Falling
4:01
80
11Damn
3:46
79
12Crocodile Tears
4:18
72
Total Length: 47 minutes
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Added on: August 24, 2014