★★★★★
Having already released three live albums in the last eight years, The Zombies have little need to put out another. The rudimentarily packaged Live In The UK even features much of the same material already reprised across 2005's Live At The Bloomsbury Theatre, London, 2008's Odessey & Oracle: 40th Anniversary Live Concert and 2011's Live In Concert At Metropolis Studios, London, albeit in more recent versions recorded on the band's 2012 British tour...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-06-20
★★★★★
The thing that really sets The Zombies apart from the majority of the other sixties bands still plying their trade is that they are still actively moving forward while not ignoring their rich history. Albums like this one belong, in the main, to be right up there in their canon...
- www.music-news.com
2011-08-01
★★★★★
It used to be enough to just write good songs and give them all you had. But somewhere along the way irony set in and that approach became hopelessly outdated, replaced with mawkish faux-motion or detached post-modern self-awareness. Some folks, like Jeff Tweedy and a handful of others, still hew to the ancient ways, blissfully unaware that they put their hip rating at risk...
- www.noripcord.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
The Zombies are the kind of band friendships are forged over. The instant recognition amongst a knowing clique granted by their 1968 classic Odessey and Oracle contains a strength of feeling undimmed by time or mediocre follow-up albums. Despite its use as a simple means of setting the scene, the Odessey and Oracle comparison is a seriously false economy. Not least because it implies if Breathe Out, Breathe In comes off the worse it is not worthy of your attention...
- drownedinsound.com
2011-05-11
★★★★★
Lead singer Colin Blunstone and virtuoso keyboardist Rod Argent are present and correct from the original quintet for this new album, while original bassist Chris White co-writes a couple of tracks. However, though this goes some way toward dispelling the smack of flying under a flag of convenience which afflicts so many 60s band reunions, this music rarely sounds like The Zombies we remember, and this can't be put down solely to the alien presence of bassist Jim Rodford, drummer Steve Rodford...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
After their world-wide and unexpected hit with Time of the Season, the somehow announced death of the Zombies, who had indeed already disbanded, was put off by an attempt at prolonging this success. Using new Odyssey & Oracle-era recordings, and rescuing some old Decca outtakes and demos, a new album was prepared for release. Unfortunately the album never saw the light; instead, a couple of singles were released, and the rest of the album was discarded.....
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-09-23
★★★★★
Well, I fell for it. In a year of highly touted reunions by everyone from the Pixies to Mission of Burma, I wanted to believe that The Zombies' first album since 1968's psych-pop masterpiece Odessey & Oracle would be a first-class tour de force. "We haven't come together cynically, or to make a buck," songwriter and keyboardist Rod Argent assures us in the liner notes. LIES...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
Proving conclusively that white boys from Watford in polo-necks and glasses could acquit themselves more than adequately in the R&B department, The Zombies were arguably the most underrated UK group of the '60s...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
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