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CSI:Ambleside

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Released
  
28 April 2008

Artist
  
Half Man Half Biscuit

Label
  
Probe Plus

Length
  
43:53

Release date
  
28 April 2008

Genre
  
Post-punk

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CSIAmbleside (2008)
  
90 Bisodol (Crimond) (2011)

Similar
  
Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral, Voyage to the Bottom of the Road, Back in the DHSS, Cammell Laird Social Club, This Leaden Pall

CSI:Ambleside is the eleventh album by Wirral-based UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB), released in April 2008.

Contents

Critical reception

  • Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "CSI: Ambleside [...] is not quite up to those standards [namely, of Achtung Bono], but it's yet another solid outing".
  • Dom Passantino, Drowned in Sound: "CSI: Ambleside is one of the peaks in an already unimpeachable back catalogue because it sticks to what makes HMHB such a great band". [...] This isn’t the greatest album of HMHB’s career, but it’s certainly the album that best illustrates what makes them great".

    • in 2012, Tim Jonze singled out "National Shite Day" for special praise, calling it an "extended moan about the miseries of British life" which is "hilarious and depressingly true. Because sometimes the sum total of global suffering seems like nothing compared to the pain of being shoved off the pavement by an idiot.".

    Songs

    1Evening of Swing (Has Been Cancelled)3:26
    2Bad Losers on Yahoo Chess3:17
    3Took Problem Chimp to Ideal Home Show4:46

    References

    CSI:Ambleside Wikipedia
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