One (Dirty Vegas album)
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| Studio album by Dirty Vegas | ||||
| Released | 18 October 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
| Genre | House music | |||
| Length | 43:03 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Producer | Dirty Vegas | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 35/100 |
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| PopMatters | 6/10 |
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One is the second album by British house music trio Dirty Vegas, released 18 October 2004 in the UK (see 2004 in British music).
On August 6, band member Steve Smith delivered an acoustic performance of several of the songs from the upcoming album.
The album was released by Capitol Records and Parlophone in Europe on 18 October 2004. A limited number of promotional two-record vinyl copies were also available. The album was later released in the United States, on 30 November 2004.
Ahead of the album's release in the States, a club and theater tour was announced. The tour included sixteen dates, starting in Washington, DC on 26 October.
One garnered generally negative reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 35, based on 8 reviews.
Steve Lowe of Blender heavily criticized the group's AOR tracks filled with earnest lyrics and Richard Marx-like production, concluding that "If this exhaustingly awful album repeats its predecessor’s success, the world will seem more confusing than ever."The Guardian's Dorian Lynskey also panned the overall work of the album, "At best, it suggests Duran Duran indulging their U2 fantasies. At worst, the brain scrabbles for comparisons. The post-millennial Bruce Hornsby? Mike & The Mechanics go to Ibiza? Frontman Steve Smith delivers lyrics that he presumably made up on the spot in the voice of a man who rolls up the sleeves of his sports jacket. One's sole redeeming feature is that its title helpfully informs reviewers how many stars to give it."
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