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9.1
63958
9.1 |
A.V. Club
Finn has slowed what rolls off his tongue, just as The Hold Steady as a whole has at last jelled into a rock band—nothing more, nothing less, and nothing held back
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8.7
64017
8.7 |
Paste Magazine
Teeth Dreams is the first time since Boys & Girls in America that The Hold Steady toes that perfect line between adolescent, backseat make-out sessions and stoned, intellectual discourse on the human condition
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8.0
64037
8.0 |
Q
More winning songs about losers. Print edition only
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8.0
63977
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
It's an embarrassment of riches unconvincingly disguised as big dumb rock songs
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8.0
63980
8.0 |
All Music
An album that rocks while still feeling laid-back.
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8.0
63856
8.0 |
The Guardian
A big rock album that feels richer, more expansive, with every listen
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8.0
63857
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
They sound like a band trying to harness their chaotic energies for lasting purposes – and succeeding whole-heartedly
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8.0
63859
8.0 |
The Independent
The dark underbelly of the American Dream, laid bare and raw-nerved
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Observer
Teeth Dreams is, in many ways, the big record they have long been threatening to make
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8.0
63900
8.0 |
Uncut
There are none of the band's signature oh-woah-woah- singalong choruses. Crucially, triumphantly, they're not missed
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8.0
63907
8.0 |
PopMatters
The Hold Steady’s earned a well-deserved respite to round out Teeth Dreams, an album about staring down and not running away from a past that haunts the present and future
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8.0
65060
8.0 |
The Music
Their best album in quite some time
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7.0
64420
7.0 |
The Digital Fix
An album best played loud
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7.0
63969
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
The Brooklyn crew's punked-up bar-band rock is more streamlined now
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6.6
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6.6 |
Earbuddy
While Teeth Dreams is not The Hold Steady’s best work, it is by no means a bad album
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6.4
64096
6.4 |
Pitchfork
Like the Hold Steady themselves, they don't always get things right, but it's hard not to root for 'em anyway
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6.0
64572
6.0 |
The Irish Times
A full-throated yell from these unlikeliest of rebels
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6.0
63855
6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The more reflective moments on the album are some of the best
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6.0
63864
6.0 |
DIY
Whilst Teeth Dreams isn't a bad album, it feels pedestrian and ordinary compared to what The Hold Steady are capable of
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6.0
64015
6.0 |
Under The Radar
Teeth Dreams isn't a failure. But it's an album that doesn't play to its creators' strengths
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6.0
63946
6.0 |
Clash
When on form this band can pluck magic from just about anywhere
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6.0
63862
6.0 |
The FT
There’s a new guitarist on board, Steve Selvidge, but business remains much the same
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5.0
64413
5.0 |
FasterLouder
Each song melts into the one before and the one after with no real discernible difference in sound
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5.0
64063
5.0 |
No Ripcord
Sounds like a transitional record, compelling in spots but nevertheless unfulfilling
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4.0
64046
4.0 |
Mojo
What used to work just doesn't anymore. Print edition only
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2.5
63863
2.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
The dropoff of these last two albums, plus Finn’s solo LP, supports the book being closed after Stay Positive
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