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Things Are What They Used To Be (album)

Things Are What They Used To Be
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Studio album by Zoot Woman
Released 21 August 2009
Genre Alternative dance, electronica
Length 42:52
Label Zoot Woman Records (ZWR)
Producer Adam Blake, Johnny Blake, Stuart Price
Zoot Woman chronology
Zoot Woman
(2003)		 Things Are What They Used To Be
(2009)		 Star Climbing
(2014)
Singles from Things Are What They Used To Be
  1. "We Won't Break"
    Released: 5 December 2007
  2. "Live in My Head"
    Released: 19 March 2008
  3. "We Won't Break/Saturation"
    Released: 30 May 2009
  4. "Just a Friend of Mine"
    Released: 11 July 2009
  5. "Memory"
    Released: 18 September 2009
  6. "We Won't Break (Remixes EP)"
    Released: 18 December 2009
  7. "More Than Ever"
    Released: 30 April 2010
  8. "Just a Friend of Mine (EP)"
    Released: 31 May 2010
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
BBC Music (mixed)
The Guardian 3/5 stars
The Quietus (favourable)
Clash (magazine) 7/10 stars

Things Are What They Used To Be is the third full-length studio album by British alternative rock / electronica band Zoot Woman. The album spawned five singles, videos were created for "We Won't Break", "Memory" and "Saturation".

All tracks written by Adam Blake, Johnny Blake, and Stuart Price, except "Lonely By Your Side" written by Johnny Blake, Ingo Martens, Andre Winter and Sven Schumacher..

Things Are What They Used To Be was met with positive, yet mixed reviews. While Neil Condron from Clash magazine argued that "they've reworked their own template," others claimed the exact opposite, for example Tom Hocknell from BBC Music, who said that their music "remains platitudinal electro."


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