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8.0
29554
8.0 |
Paste Magazine
Always fun, consciously clever and catchy
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8.0
29555
8.0 |
Spin
Their wit keeps maturing, but TMBG's gentle weirdness is forever young
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8.0
29556
8.0 |
Subba Cultcha
They manage here more obviously than ever before to combine an almost limitlessly eclectic array of genres (often in the space of the same song)
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8.0
29769
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
A brilliant summer listen
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8.0
29957
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Packed with hits, hooks and good humour
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7.5
29599
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Serves as a refreshing corrective to years of kiddie albums and so-so grown-up discs, and reestablishes Linnell and John Flansburgh as geek-rock explorers of the highest order
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7.0
29695
7.0 |
No Ripcord
A solid, summery album that more than delivers on the tunes, and the LOLs, and you can't really ask for more than that
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7.0
29513
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
At long last, the duo has returned to making geeky adult music for geeky adults
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7.0
29529
7.0 |
God Is In The TV
Musically speaking, they’ve absorbed a whole host of influences, or rather they now sound a lot like the bands they once influenced
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7.0
29591
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
While Join Us is lighter on lyrical surrealism than earlier TMBG, it delivers on their well-known gleeful morbidity
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7.0
29881
7.0 |
DIY
If it all sounds a bit of a mess, it certainly is - but a glorious one
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6.0
29767
6.0 |
Under The Radar
Another appealing chapter in the band’s history, even if the band’s claws are, uncharacteristically, out
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6.0
29553
6.0 |
PopMatters
Might be the sound of a band treading water, but that’s probably what the long suffering fans of the duo’s grown-up records might be in a fix for
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5.0
33092
5.0 |
Rave Magazine
The sound of a band who have become comfortable in their sub-Devo, post-Talking Heads rut
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4.0
29831
4.0 |
Bowlegs
An over-long and very ordinary set that won’t appeal to kids, adults or even Disney for that matter
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4.0
29736
4.0 |
Q
Smart but dull. Print edition only
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