Passionoia is the third and final studio album by British pop band Black Box Recorder, released in 2003.

Passionoia
Studio album by Black Box Recorder
Released	3 May 2003
Genre	Indie Pop, synth-pop, spoken word
Length	38:51
Label	One Little Indian
Producer	Black Box Recorder, Pete Hofmann
Black Box Recorder chronology
The Worst of Black Box Recorder (2001) Passionoia (2003)

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	70/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Blender	[3]
The Guardian	[4]
Neumu	3/10[5]
No Ripchord	6/10[6]
Pitchfork	8.1/10[7]
Playlouder	3/5[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Stylus Magazine	7.6/10[10]
Uncut	4/5[11]

Passionoia was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 70, based on ten reviews.[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Luke Haines and John Moore.[12]

1. "The School Song" – 3:41
2. "Gsoh Q.E.D." – 3:46
3. "British Racing Green" – 4:34
4. "Being Number One" – 3:26
5. "The New Diana" – 2:49
6. "These Are the Things" – 3:58
7. "Andrew Ridgeley" – 3:47
8. "When Britain Refused to Sing" – 3:14
9. "Girl's Guide for the Modern Diva" – 4:09
10. "I Ran All the Way Home" – 4:27

Personnel

Personnel per booklet and sleeve.[12][13]

References