Ready for the Weekend
| Calvin Harris
Ready for the Weekend
Ready for the Weekend is the second studio album by Scottish musician Calvin Harris. It was released on 14 August 2009 by Fly Eye and Columbia Records. The album debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). It spawned the singles "I'm Not Alone", "Ready for the Weekend", "Flashback" and "You Used to Hold Me". --Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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BBC
The occasional catchy instrumental loses out to cold, calculated arrangements.
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The Guardian
The issue is that often the songs themselves aren't strong enough.
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NME
An enjoyable, if somewhat lightweight, return for everyone's favorite tweeter.
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Resident Advisor
To put it bluntly, Ready for the Weekend comes across as a failed, blander-than-you'd-expect attempt at blending David Guetta's bombastic floor-filling mainstream talent with Stuart Price's refined sense of pop flair. )
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Sputnik
Taking note from 90s dance music, Calvin’s 2nd album is an improvement over I Create Disco.
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Independent
The main characteristic they all share – apart from some of the worst lyrics ever set to music – is their forgetable secondhand tone.
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All Music
it's an enjoyable amalgam of dance energy and pop focus.
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The Telegraph
Ready for the Weekend by Calvin Harris is big, bold and colorful 21st-century electro dance pop.
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The Scotsman
This is truly modern pop music for the reality talent show age, big, brassy, and especially in the case of every lyric in every song, stunningly vacuous.
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Claus
A disco pop sugar rush. Set a late noughties badly lit overcrowded nightclub to music and you get the picture
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The List
Nagging and one dimensional, Harris proves there’s more than one way to skin an 80s cat and he’s flogged this one to death.
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Digital Spy
Calvin Harris's second album certainly sounds good, but what happened to the tunes?
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aquiesce to...
Harris still is the creator of (modern) disco but RFTW is slightly more industrial which makes his altered sound harder and housier but a little bit, just a little bit, little bit in lov–errr…ahem, more generic.
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State Magazine
Most of the album is passable without being particularly remarkable and the tracks all gel well together, middle of the road stuff that isn’t too offensive but fails to make any lasting impact on the listener either.
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Metro
this second album surges along like a 21st-century disco mega mix, with masses of arms-in-the-air peaks but also plenty of wickedly dark undertones
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Music OMH
Harris is currently riding a crest of a wave, so he’s clearly doing something right. But it feels like he’s sacrificed some of his creativity in favor of simplistic and unimaginative output.
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