Don't Look Back is the debut album by Slovak-based recording artist Celeste Buckingham, released on April 3, 2012 through a distribution by EMI Records.
Don't Look Back received very favorable reviews from music critics. The ' magazine praised the album as "one of the best debut records that has ever been released by the finalists of any local talent contest". Complimenting young artist for "having surpassed all fellow singers of her own", Daniel Marà ¡alÃÂk attributed much of "Buckingham's allure" to her ability to see beyond the horizons of her homebase in the first place. Beside the album's anthem "Run Run Run and its titular ballad, he would find the most aspiring up-tempo tracks, namely "Hello Stranger", "Bleeding" and "Blue Guitar". Giving the set six (out of seven) points, he only reproached the Slovak cut "Mám à ¥a málo", respectively the spoken intro of "Stupid Love Games", both of which he saw "disturbing to no purpose".
In a review published in the online newspaper MusicServer.cz, Honza Baluà ¡ek introduced the product as "a fresh and brilliant record", continuing further: "However unbelievable, (at the time of recording) sixteen-year-old Celeste Buckingham is on the absolute top of the best SuperStars finalists... Wow!" Despite noting the broad genre influences, such as e.g. Adele, Dido, Rihanna and Katy Perry, the columnist stressed Buckingham's skills as a sovereign composer. Except for the opening tune "Nobody Knows", reportedly disliked due to "[its] wrecked rhythm", he felt all of the album's tracks as "radio-friendly hits." Among other, he lauded "Run Run Run" as his favorite and, especially, the singer's duet "Heart" featuring Noah Ellenwood. Unlike Marà ¡alÃÂk of the REPORT, he saw also a potential in her collaboration with Martin Harich, describing their result ("Mám à ¥a málo") to sound "like the best in the Slovak classic pop" music. Eventually, he graded the album with eight points (out of ten in total).
On July 26, 2012, the album entered the Top 50 ProdejnÃÂ, a chart effective for both countries Czech Republic and Slovakia, debuting at number forty. The following week, on August 3, 2012, the set topped its chart run at number thirty-seven. In total, the record would spend four weeks on the list.