Funny Looking Angels
# Funny Looking Angels

Funny Looking Angels is a collaborative Christmas album recorded by Smith & Burrows, a band made up of English musicians Tom Smith (Editors) and Andy Burrows (I Am Arrows, Razorlight, ex-We Are Scientists). It was released on 25 November 2011 through Kitchenware Records.

The album contains four covers: "Only You" by Yazoo, Black's "Wonderful Life", "Funny Looking Angels" by Delta, and "On and On" by Longpigs.

## Promotion

"Funny Looking Angels" was released as the lead single to promote the album.

The second single, "When the Thames Froze", was released on 12 December 2011. It has peaked at number 32 on the UK Indie Chart, and entered national charts in Belgium and the Netherlands.

## Critical reception

Professional ratings :

| Aggregate scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 63/100 |
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Clash | 7/10 |
| Drowned in Sound | 7/10 |
| The Independent | |
| NME | 1/10 |

Funny Looking Angels received generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 63, based on 9 reviews.

## Charts

| Charts (2011) | Peak position |
| - | - |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) | 14 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) | 81 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) | 32 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) | 87 |
| UK Album Downloads (OCC) | 22 |
| UK Independent Albums (OCC) | 8 |
