Hi-Fi Serious

Hi-Fi Serious
Studio album by
Released4 March 2002
RecordedAugust–December 2001
GenreAlternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock, pop rock
Length45:36
LabelLondon
ProducerKen Andrews, Al Clay
A chronology
Exit Stage Right
(2000)
Hi-Fi Serious
(2002)
Teen Dance Ordinance
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Alternative Press6/10[2]
Blender[3]
Drowned in Sound9/10[4]
laut.de[5]
NME7/10[6]
Nude as the News(Positive)[7]
Ox-FanzineFavourable[8]
Q[9]

Hi-Fi Serious is the third studio album by British alternative rock band A, released in 2002.

The name "Hi-Fi Serious" was derived from the name of the hi-fi electronics store Alan Partridge buys a Bang & Olufsen stereo from in the last episode of I'm Alan Partridge series 1. The tour in support of this album's release was called the 'Inner City Sumo' tour - another reference to I'm Alan Partridge (Season 1 Episode 1).

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Harvilla, Rob (August 2002). "Music Reviews". Alternative Press. Vol. 17, no. 169. p. 68.
  3. ^ Mitchell, Ben. "A Hi-Fi Serious". Blender. Archived from the original on 13 August 2004. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Drowned in Sound review". Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  5. ^ Cordas, Alexander. "Hi-Fi Serious" (in German). laut.de. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  6. ^ NME review
  7. ^ Nude as the News review Archived 2004-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Hiller, Joachim (March–May 2002). "Reviews: A / Hi-Fi Serious CD". Ox-Fanzine (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  9. ^ Silver, Dan (March 2002). "A: Hi-Fi Serious". Q Review. Q. No. 188. p. 117. ISSN 0955-4955.