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	Supergrass - Road To Rouen CD review
		With a decidedly more mature outlook and approach on their fifth studio album, Road To Rouen, the foursome have toned down their spunkiness in favor of nine numbers that still yield all the pop pleasures of their past, while at the same time forging a new direction for their sound.
		But on Road To Rouen there are more than a couple of moments that the ghosts of John & Paul hover about (only here they sound more like the two during their early solo careers than when they were a collaborating duo).
		Despite lacking the testosterone level of previous efforts, Road To Rouen is still packed with well-written numbers all foaming at the mouth with great pop hooks, ultimately proving that it's okay to grow up.
	www.concertlivewire.com /supergrass.htm (404 words)

	user submitted reviews of Road To Rouen by Supergrass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Roxy begins in the middle of the road before peeling off towards psychedelia and Marrakech, while the opening Tales of Endurance is a symphony squashed into an eggcup.
		however road to rouen did something that Franz Ferdinand and them have in common as soon as i herd it i wanted to dance, st. petersburg is a great song and a good first single Low C and Fin are also excellent..
		Road to Rouen is 40 minutes of gold from the epic 'Tales of endurance, the lush 'St Petersburg', the jaunty 'Kick in the teeth' to the sleepy and melancholic 'Fin'.
	www.albumvote.co.uk /reviews/2117.html (1278 words)

	BBC - Rock & Alt Review - Supergrass, Road To Rouen
		Road To Rouen is a terific album where the listener is rewarded with every play.
		In fact there are elements of Road to Rouen on all their previous albums (Faraway anyone?) I'd wager if they'd stuck exactly to the same old forumla, the reviewer would have had a pop at them for that.
		Road To Rouen continues the progression and is an album to really listen to and lose yourself in.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/rockandalt/reviews/supergrass_rouen.shtml (6018 words)

	Supergrass: Road to Rouen - PopMatters Music Review
		This creative venture of isolation, and the resulting record, Road to Rouen, isn't a shock, but it is unexpected.
		Road to Rouen isn't entirely the stuff of rocking chairs and Sunday drives, but it is the first Supergrass record to champion an overall vibe over immediacy.
		The only thing blatantly missing from Road to Rouen is the embarrassment of fiery songs, so crucial to Supergrass' status as one of the UK's best singles band.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/s/supergrass-roadtorouen.shtml (896 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Supergrass - Road to Rouen
		And it's their talent as players that defines 'Road to Rouen', an album that - as current depths-of-winter single 'St Petersburg' suggests - doesn't offer much in the way of happy choruses but contains songs that rank among the band's best.
		The problem with 'Road to Rouen', and it's a rarity these days, is that it's too short.
		Like Beck's 'Sea Change', 'Road to Rouen' could be the album that even non-fans will savour, but unlike that record, the fact that it feels incomplete means it can never make the jump from good to classic.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2005/0825/supergrass.html (373 words)

	Supergrass: Road To Rouen - All CDs $5.99 and Free Shipping at yourmusic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They sprung back with 2002's "Life on Other Planets", a truly wonderful pop album that was their best since their debut, but for 2005's "Road to Rouen", they once again retreat from the bright colors and sunny melodies and turn toward darker textures.
		They have never shown such control on a record before -- previously, their best albums were exciting because they went all over the place, and did it well -- and it's quite intoxicating to hear them ride one groove, finding different variations within it, for an entire album.
		And if "Road to Rouen" is anything, it is not monotonous -- it may be an ideal soundtrack for night, but this is hardly a one-note, self-absorbed introspective record.
	www.yourmusic.com /?tc=00YM51945&success=/browse/album/107438.html (356 words)

	Road To Rouen \| The A.V. Club
		Supergrass seems a bit flummoxed about that on the new Road To Rouen, although the title is sure to make it a hit in the Venn overlap of Ramones fans and French-geography aficionados.
		Though sure to be dismissed by those listening for the next "Caught By The Fuzz," Road To Rouen is likely to draw in those who give it a repeat spin.
		But Road To Rouen proves that Supergrass, after closing the book on one decade, still had at least one more chapter to write.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/42676/print (282 words)

	HMV.co.uk: albums: Road To Rouen (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		’Road To Rouen’ is about a journey; going places, moving on and growing up.
		A decade on from their debut, ‘Road to Rouen’ signals the beginning of a new chapter for Supergrass.
		‘Road to Rouen’ demonstrates an amazing development of their sound, firmly shaking off the old frivolous and cheeky image, packed with ideas surprises at every turn.
	www.hmv.co.uk /hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=398207 (224 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Road To Rouen will be released August 15 by Parlaphone, and is the group's fifth regular album.
		I keep wanting to spell road "roud." Road To Rouen was recorded at the group's studio in Normandy, France.
		Rouen is pretty close to there, hence the title.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /2005/07/supergrass-take-road-to-rouen-on.htm (208 words)

	Supergrass: Road to Rouen: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Granted Road to Rouen does have a fistful of killer moments during its brief under-40 runtime.
		There's a lot to love here, and Supergrass is still a killer band when they get in their groove, but there's definitely a noticeable lack of the hunger that once dripped from their music, no sneer to bring it all crashing home.
		Road to Rouen will get its spins in my house, but I'm crossing my fingers for the mid-life crisis next time out.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/s/supergrass/road-to-rouen.shtml (547 words)

	Supergrass - Life On Other Planets, Road to Rouen Review
		I'm sure the boys of Supergrass are tired of hearing the word mature with regards to their music as of late but you really can't blame reviewers for using it.
		Compare an album like Road to Rouen or even their last album, Life On Other Planets with their debut album, I Should Coco and "mature" is such an obvious word.
		Road To Rouen is probably one of the better Supergrass albums when taken as a whole.
	www.musicemissions.com /display_review/1864 (533 words)

	TransformOnline : Music : Reviews : Supergrass "Road to Rouen" (Capitol)
		Along with fellow Brits Doves and Idlewild, the band have chosen to eschew the familiar path for new territory on their latest, Road to Rouen, which also happens to be the first album past the band’s 10 year birthday.
		In fact, the overwhelming feeling one gets from listening to Road to Rouen is of peace: a calming, sedated, warm sensation that almost lulls you to sleep in the best of ways, as the songs quietly blend into one another in a sea of tranquility.
		Road to Rouen might not be what you’re used to, but it has its own rewards that are almost better than getting yet another happy-go-cheeky collection of guitar-driven singles.
	www.transformonline.com /music/reviews/003228.php (597 words)

	NME.COM - Reviews - Supergrass : Road To Rouen
		'Road To Rouen' is the sound of a band at last hitting their stride, finding out who they are and sounding like it's finally making them happy.
		When the band break the song down it is, as usual for this record, Rob Coombes' keyboards that lift everything and carry it all off somewhere wonderful and unusual.
		Finally, there's 'Fin', which, as carrot-cake eaters everywhere knows means 'End', but this, like so much of the rest of 'Road To Rouen', sounds more like a new beginning.
	www.nme.com /reviews/7744 (827 words)

	woxy.com > Boards - Supergrass: "Road to Rouen"
		So, I picked up "Road to Rouen" this past weekend and the first thing I notice is the incredibly tasteful font they have used for all of the artwork text.
		The problem with "Road to Rouen", however, is that these tracks are entirely unremarkable, except that they are uniformly boring.
		Now, based on a particular lyric in a song on Road to Rouen, if "Kiss of Life" would have gotten better reception, you might have had yourself a dancy, electro response for a fifth album...
	www.woxy.com /boards/showthread.php?t=31488 (817 words)

	Supergrass, Road to Rouen
		These perennial teenagers have made a departure on their latest record, Road to Rouen, focusing on themes of leaving, skin-shedding and shifting identity while moving toward a more mature sound.
		From start to finish, Road to Rouen feels like flight and transition, the use of a vintage '60s piano and the incorporation of unexpected instrumentation (horn section, ukulele) underscoring the album's darker, conflicted lyrical tone.
		Whether it was the untimely passing of singer Gaz Coombes' mother, for whom "Roxy" was written, or a random musical epiphany, Road to Rouen is a brilliant, complex surprise from those cheeky manchildren we never expected would grow up.
	www.harpmagazine.com /articles/detail.cfm?article_id=3644 (127 words)

	CD Reviews: Review of Road to Rouen by Supergrass
		That suspicion is grandly confirmed within the first ten seconds of Road to Rouen, the band’s fifth album.
		The most surprising moment may be closing song “Fin,” a drum machine propelled otherworldly ballad that could be a sister to Blur’s “Yuko and Hiro.” For a band that’s best known for tearing songs apart at the seams, they have a surprisingly soft touch to go with it.
		It’s unclear if Rouen is a long term change in direction or just a pit stop on the way to something bigger and even better.
	www.bullz-eye.com /cdreviews/3medsker/supergrass-road_to_rouen.htm (325 words)

	Supergrass - Road To Rouen - Review - Stylus Magazine
		But fuck it – that particular tune is a classic and the album that spawned it is one of the finest blasts of guitar pop energy you’ll ever hear – it came out on the day of my 16th birthday and I loved it.
		For Road To Rouen Supergrass decamped to France (obviously), just four guys in a band with an engineer to help them, and set about stripping downwards and backwards, playing music for themselves, making the kind of record they’ve wanted to make for years, with no interference and no expectations.
		Road To Rouen isn’t likely to delight hardcore fans or appease bypassers, and I doubt it can win a big enough new audience to make up for that.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=3287 (401 words)

	groovevolt.com - album reviews
		If their new album, Road to Rouen is any indication, the group is moving steadily into middle age, growing tighter, and feeling confident about their abilities.
		While it’s unfair to generalize about the future of a band after listening to their latest album, it is not unfair to call their latest a disappointment.
		Road to Rouen might not be Supergrass’, well, road to ruin, but it is definitely a path that the probably should not revisit in the future if continued success is their ultimate destination.
	www.groovevolt.com /AlbumReview/AlbumReview.asp?ID=221 (338 words)

	Supergrass - Road To Rouen \| Sound Generator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		To still be going strong more than a decade after your debut is a rare thing these days; in 2005, they're one of the few bands who are big enough to ignore whatever (usually re-hashed) genres that currently prevail, and simply impose their own distinctive brand of music.
		So 'Road To Rouen' is full of the idiosyncrasies, which make Supergrass the band they are.
		It's also instantly memorable, which is where it differs from the rest of the record; the bulk of 'Road To Rouen' could definitely be described as 'slow burning'.
	www.soundgenerator.com /burner/review_detail.cfm?reviewid=1121 (599 words)

	CLUAS Indie Album Reviews: Supergrass 'Road to Rouen'
		New album 'Road to Rouen' (despite continuing the Supergrass tradition of awful album titles and/or sleeves) is a sophisticated and accomplished record which marks a decisive step in the development of this impressive and under-rated group.
		Tracks on 'Road to Rouen' tend to feature brief lyric verses interspersed with longer instrumental breaks.
		The music is warm and nostalgic without ever sounding too retro; the lyrics are bittersweet and evocative but never whining — 'Road To Rouen' is a reflective and mellow album in the same territory as 'The Hour of Bewilderbeast' by Badly Drawn Boy or 'Paris 1919' by John Cale.
	www.cluas.com /Music/albums/supergrass3.htm (485 words)

	Supergrass: Road To Rouen (2005): Reviews
		Road to Rouen isn't going to blow away any fan new to Supergrass, nor is any old fan going to go ga-ga over what they're hearing, but it's good to know the band isn't sitting on their laurels fantasizing about killing their commercial appeal.
		Rouen is all long jams and breezy acoustics, the telltale signs of a band that feels it's time to sober up.
		It seems they’ve not only gone and made that sensible and mature fifth album that every band past their sell-by date inflicts on their effervescently loyal fans, they’ve actually made a record that would be more appropriate in an old folks’ home than your local indie niterie.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/supergrass/roadtorouen (816 words)

	Observer \| Supergrass, Road to Rouen
		'Rouen' notwithstanding, Supergrass's fifth album strives to add emotional ballast to the band's jaunty Sixties pop.
		Shame, then, that the Road doesn't take them where they want to go.
		The daily grind might not seem that enticing a theme for a hopeful new band's maiden oeuvre, but London quartet the Rakes have made a sensational album from the stuff of tedium.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5262151-102280,00.html (548 words)

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		Supergrass got the drop on me by recording a new album unbeknownst to me (and millions of adoring fans the world over) that is due out on August 15th.
		Road To Rouen marks yet another chapter in a decade-long Britpop legacy that is smattered with wine stains, cigarette ashes, rocked tour buses, and, finally, a look inside at the folkier things in life.
		Road To Rouen most certainly will satisfy the die-hard Supergrass fan with its array of deeply personal pop ballads, '60's-laced psychedelic noodlings, acoustic-driven travelling tunes, and just straight-ahead rock 'n roll tunes.
	scenestars.net /2005/07/supergrass-road-to-rouen.php (305 words)

	TransformOnline : Music : Articles : Supergrass "Road to Rouen" (Capitol)
		Road to Rouen has been made out by everyone to be a “departure” for you: less big hooks, more “mature” mellowness.
		Of course there are Supergrass (traits) on all of them – the hooks and everything – but Road to Rouen is still quite melodic.
		In Road to Rouen’s bio, you are quoted as saying certain personal matters influenced the record’s feel.
	www.transformonline.com /music/articles/003229.php (1033 words)

	Supergrass.tv mb -> Road to Rouen
		road to rouen is an excellant driving record, i have it one when i'm out and about at work all the time!
		Hello! I made it to rouen but when i said to submit my name and email it said error and wouldnt go past that screen.
		the version on the Road to Rouen microsite, which you can access via Monkey Basket, is the BETA version (I am pretty sure of that). Try this one. Best time is 4:43 (so far).
	www.supergrass.tv /mb/index.php?showtopic=324 (353 words)

	Supergrass : Road to Rouen - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But it's also nice that Supergrass have skewed their take on traditional British rock by avoiding the type of preening that marked so much of their predecessors' work, as well as that of their peers in Oasis and Blur.
		Which is another way of saying that if you're on the hunt for some evocative, taut songcraft that avoids the trappings of the 21st century's technological gadgetry, then welcome home, road warrior.
		A rewarding if short-lived experience, Road to Rouen is a catchy-as-hell collection of tracks geared for maximum emotional impact.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3405717,00.html (275 words)

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