★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Take ThatProgressedPolydor2011 This chaser to their enormous 2010 comeback album, Progress, brings more lovable nonsense from the manband whose recent misadventures include getting stranded in the palm of a giant robot (Howard and Mark had to be rescued during a recent show on their UK tour)...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2011-06-13
★★★★★
Upon its November release, Take That's first -assisted record since 1995 became the second-fastest-selling album in British chart history and garnered the one-time professional mop repositories the most positive critical notices of their career. Although it's since sold more than two million copies - a tally only could legitimately wrinkle her schnozzle at - it's also become that most curious of beasts: the buzz-free blockbuster. When was the last time you heard anyone talk about ...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Robbie Williams' once invincible solo career was held to ransom by little green men. The other four's lucrative tours were merely a kind of all-singing, clothes-on Chippendales show. Take That's reunion, really, was as predictable as the monthly cycles of the majority of the 1.35 million who broke the internet buying tickets for next summer's whopping tour. Yet since the five-piece dominated the early '90s, the pop landscape has shifted, claimed by Simon Cowell and the lurid artifice of Gaga...
- nme.com
2010-12-06
★★★★★
After spending more than a decade both disparaging and distancing himself from (often doing a mocking punk-rock version of the group's most-loved tune at concerts), is back in the fold and one of the '90s biggest boy bands are therefore 'back' with ; its cover featuring the five members in different stages of evolution, its content suggesting this new found unity at every turn...
- www.themusicnetwork.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
By posing in their birthday suits for cover art that imitates the iconic image of evolution from ape to man and then naming the album Progress, the newly reunited Take That would love to have us believe that their sixth studio effort denotes the culmination of their 20-year musical evolution. It's not, but it does find the group making fantastic strides in a new and unexpected direction...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2010-11-22
★★★★★
Buy / Listen: 7Digital | Amazon | eMusic | We7 | Spotify Be careful what you wish for. Since they returned in 2006 (has it really only been four years?), one story, one character has threatened to overshadow Take That's every move. Two huge albums, massive live tours and some genuinely brilliant songs hasn't exactly made their reunion a failure, but still that elephant in the room wouldn't go away. And now, very publicly, he's back. From outer space. Or LA at least...
- www.state.ie
2010-11-22
★★★★★
Take That: Robbie's back but the ballads are out. Does it matter what the new Take That album sounds like? After all, the success of Progress - the first 'That album since 1995 to feature Robbie Williams - is assured. Websites crashed a fortnight ago when tickets for next summer's reunion tour sold out in record time. Bookies confidently predict a Christmas No 1...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-11-15
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Take ThatProgressPolydor2010 Take That's first album as a quintet since 1995 is informed by two things: a genuinely new sound - shaped by electropop producer Stuart Price - and Robbie Williams's seamless reimmersion into life as a band member, which is played out on emotional duets with Gary Barlow and Mark Owen...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-11-15
★★★★★
Enough has been written elsewhere about Take That's history (a humdrum tale of boys meet boys, exploitation and idolisation, dreams fulfilled and crushed, ruined friendships, success as vengeance, glorious pop and the furies of fame), so let's skip straight to the new chapter. If the title of Progress suggests the band's new sound will be a merging and evolving of Take That Mk.II and recent Robbie Williams fare, the reality is startlingly different...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-11-15
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