Take Me Home
| One Direction
Take Me Home
Take Me Home is the second studio album by English-Irish boy band One Direction, released on 9 November 2012 by Syco Music and Columbia Records. As a follow-up to One Direction's internationally successful debut album Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home was written in groups and has an average of just under five songwriters per track. Largely recorded and composed in Sweden during 2012, Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk, who composed One Direction's hits, "What Makes You Beautiful" and "One Thing", spent six months in Stockholm developing songs for the album, and were able to shape melodies around the members' tones. - Wikipedia
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The Washington Post
The boy band’s sophomore album is pop candy in the purest sense — sweet, colorful, and unlike so many releases aimed at ticklish tweenage hearts, consistent.
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The Guardian
The scale of their success may still be baffling, but on One Direction's new album it at least sounds like they made an effort.
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Idolator
Take Me Home feels a little cynical, even as it excels in making some of the purest pop of the year.
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Huffington Post
“Take Me Home” successfully embodies the carefree and fun nature of teens, which is something I can definitely support.
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Rolling Stone
Their second album rivals the best of Backstreet and ‘N Sync when the material pumps.
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BBC
The record-breaking boyband’s second album ticks every fan’s boxes.
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Pop Crush
While 'Up All Night' was innocent, sugary fun, 'Take Me Home' is more of the same, but generally with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge adult edge.
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Chicago Tribune
“Take Me Home,” the quick follow-up to the group's wildly popular debut, “Up All Night,” is inevitably a bit of a cash grab.
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Pop Matters
Fittingly for an album whose most-uttered word is “whoa,” they seem perpetually awed by their good fortune and the beauty of whoever happens to be standing nearby.
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The Young Folks
Those slow songs, man. Some of them were flaws for me.
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All Music
This album highlights even more than their previous one how much One Direction's mix of punchy guitars over snappy beats, handclaps, and bright synthesizers has in common with the positive, fun-loving tone of '70s bubblegum pop, as well as more contemporary bands like the Jonas Brothers and perennial guilty pleasure Hanson.
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Metro
One Direction’s second album Take Me Home is a catchy slice of summer pop (who’d have guessed), that if nothing else shows the lighter side of Simon Cowell’s empire.
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Newsday
All signs point to up.
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Brent Music Reviews
Take Me Home is a step in the right ‘direction.’
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NY Daily News
On the fivesome's second album — an unsurprising, note-for-note redo of their first — they chirp through R&B-free pop songs so clean they squeak.
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HTF Magazine
This album just goes on to cement the bands place in the pop world and it doesn’t look like they’re going anywhere anytime soon!
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Digital Spy
The result may see them progressing at a snail's pace, but when you've got it so good, what's the rush anyway?
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34th Street Magazine
The rest of the album is predictable bubblegum pop. Even N*Sync would be impressed.
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Express
Here they are on their second outing and while it’s not going to change the world the voices are good and the charm undiminished.
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Up Roxx
One Direction’s ‘Take Me Home’ masterfully hits its target.
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Spin or Bin Music
In all, it's an excellently polished album with consistent sounds to their debut, but it's also still early days yet.
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Anna, Look!
If Up All Night was One Direction after they’d had too many blue smarties, Take Me Home is them a few months later, realising the folly of their hyper ways, but not so much that they’re ready to trade in their Jay Gatsbyesque lives just yet.
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What Culture
In short, it all adds up to make a pretty perfect pop album.
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The Ithican
One Direction steers sophomore album in the wrong direction.
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Montreal Gazette
Acknowledge that the producers and writers that ultimately came up with the 13 retirement plans on this disc know how to craft a chorus with a drive that won’t quit.
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Into the Crowd Magazine
So overall, I would say the album is pretty close to perfect! They have a great mix of upbeat and romantic songs and the lyrics in some of the songs are just amazing!
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