Alternative Press (p.152) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The combination of straight-up thrash with bucketfuls of melody is a sound they've perfected..."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.52) - "'Deliverance Is Mine' is cynical and bitter while remaining enormously tuneful....It's a consistently muscular return..."11.84041
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Rolling Stone (p.127) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'No One Does It Like You' is a whimsical valentine with a bouncy groove banked on double bass and hand claps, evoking a love-struck M. Ward."Mojo (Publisher) (pp.118-119) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ith Lehigh passing through hymnal serenity, an endorphin rush of swaying rhythm and back porch twang. Fans of Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver and Mercury Rev's DESERTER'S SONGS, take note."8.892934
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Rolling Stone (p.84) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[F]rontman Tunde Adebimpe sings in a full-throated bellow -- often in harmony with guitarist Kyp Malone's spooky falsetto -- that is among the most soulful and arresting voices in rock."Rolling Stone (p.102) - Ranked #4 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "The deliberate enigma of TV on the Radio's art rock has given way to a spacey magic..."Spin (p.64) - Ranked #01 in Spin's "The 40 Best Albums of 2006" -- "[They] turn the dystopian wallow of Radiohead's KID A on its ear, finding a shocked freedom in alienation."Entertainment Weekly (p.73) - "You won't hear airier, more evocative singing on a record this year, from the Beach Boys-like dissonant harmonies on 'A Method' to the eerie counterpoint vocals of 'Hours'." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly (p.128) - Ranked #2 in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Records Of 2006" -- "TV on the Radio show us that harmony and noise can blissfully exist in the same space."Q (p.115) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's an album full of playful daring, where Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone weave vocal harmonies together over David Sitek's narcotic musical backdrop."Q (p.121) - Ranked #39 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006" -- "[T]heir finest set of songs, with 'Hours' and 'Let The Devil In' combining their oddball sensitivity with smart, memorable hooks."Alternative Press (p.190) - "The ultimate majesty of RETURN TO COOKIE MOUNTAIN is that it reveals something new with each listen. Yes, the journey is often challenging, but that's what makes it unforgettable."CMJ (p.42) - "[With] misting, compact melodies that could be hits while doubling as the soundtrack for their world domination."Clash (magazine) (p.76) - "Bold, ambitious, experimental -- it's the sound of a band realising their potential brilliantly."7.826723
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Q (10/02, p.109) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Pippen's lush tones are again a good foil for Defever's haunting music..."Uncut (11/02, p.118) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A brave departure for a 4AD band previously synonymous with ethereal whimsy."Magnet (1/03, pp.85-7) - "...The Pippen and Defever teaming proves formidable....HNIA's left turn is taking it in a fascinating direction..."CMJ (12/02, p.54) - "...The R&B elements are more muted, reconfigured through acoustic guitars and ruffled drum breaks...NME (Magazine) (9/28/02, p.47) - 8 out of 10 - "...Truly, magic from the margins..."6.722894
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Q (11/01, p.136) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...Forward-looking British dance music..."6.666082
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Rolling Stone (11/28/02, p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...[Featuring a] breathtaking mix of noisy, almost surflike guitars, sweet pop melodies and primal-scream-therapy vocals..."Q (1/03, p.69) - Included in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever"Alternative Press (7/95, pp.78-79) - Ranked #13 in AP's list of the 'Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...The fractious combination of [Black] Francis's over-the-top but strangely relevant lyrics and vocals, and the band's unsettling melodicism reached its epitome in 1989's DOOLITTLE..."CMJ (1/5/04, p.26) - Ranked #2 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1989"Blender (Magazine) (p.86) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "DOOLITTLE offsets ROSA-style punk with painfully lovely expanses."6.606026
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Spin (12/91) - "...As they've gotten more popular, the band has gotten more rocking AND prettier, more grandiose, stranger: better..."Q (10/91) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...an unqualified triumph...Several of the songs here manage to combine furious garage riffing with sudden flashes of pop melody..."Melody Maker (12/91) - Ranked #19 in Melody Maker's list of the top 30 albums of 1991.6.606026
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Rolling Stone (11/25/93, p.120) - 3 Stars - Good - "...Some of the slowest and mopiest self-revelations ever committed to tape....RED HOUSE PAINTERS are quite the rosy crucifixion..."Spin (6/93, p.18) - Recommended - "...singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek's principal antecedents--folk lovelies Tim Buckley and Nick Drake--overdosed within a year of each other....[Kozelek] and band are breathing some of the same rarified air as those delicate souls. Beauty and sadness abound, coffered in precarious folk settings..."Alternative Press (8/93, p.85) - "...[RED HOUSE PAINTERS] possess an intimacy that shuts out the rest of the world. The sorrow-absorbing songs here first command your attention and soon after capture your heart..."Option (9-10/93, p.122) - "...you may not want to listen, but you're compelled to....[Red House Painters'] second release contains more good surprises and genuine emotion than a truckload of other so-called `alternatives'..."Melody Maker (5/22/93, p.28) - "...[RED HOUSE PAINTERS] is the musical equivalent of letting the dappled, slow-moving surface of some great river carry you where the undercurrents dictate..."Musician (7/93, p.94) - "...Kozelek writes in a brutally confessional style that makes '70s singer/songwriters seem like wimps....the band plays in a slow, haunting, disquiet that tightens the focus on Kozelek's vulnerable vocals. A harrowing but often transcendent record..."NME (Magazine) (5/22/93, p.33) - "...What separates [Mark Kozelek] from the spoilt bastard whinings of other pop miserablists is that he never asks what he's done to deserve the grief....RED HOUSE PAINTERS is one long look back in anguish...and how refreshing a good rib-aching weep can be..."6.606026
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Spin (12/90) - "...Best to sit back and let the Twins' pleasant sound effects envelop you, because the pleasures `Heaven Or Las Vegas' has to offer aren't the sort you should spend any time thinking about. The Cocteau Twins are proof that you don't necessarily need something to say to get by; something to feel will do just fine..."Q - 4 Stars - Excellent - Included in Q's list of the Fifty Best Albums of 1990.Alternative Press (7/95, p.81) - Ranked #21 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95.'Alternative Press (7/95, p.81) - "...The enchanting genius of the Cocteau Twins' high-wrought soul stirrings is more concentrated, and, yes, sublime, than ever on HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS. The place their music inhabits is undeniably closer to heaven than Nevada..."6.606026
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Q (10/01, p.67) - Ranked #26 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime"Q (7/01, p.90) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time" - "...As cerebral as it is visceral....a relentlessly teeth-baring onslaught..."Alternative Press (8/01, p.112) - Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums" - "...An alternatively explosive and tender opus..."NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #44 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'NME (Magazine) (9/25/93, p.19) - Ranked #14 among The 50 Greatest Albums Of The '80s.Blender (Magazine) (p.86) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "'Broken Face' and 'Break My Body' harness loneliness and self-loathing to images of deformation -- Pixies perennials; and 'Cactus' smolders with lust."6.606026
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Entertainment Weekly (10/15/99, p.83) - "...Weeping strings and mournful slide guitars snuggle against Perry's blissful brushed-velvet voice. He hasn't forsaken titles like 'Death Will Be My Bride' but this virtuoso crooner seems to have otherwise given up the ghost." - Rating: A-Q (11/99, p.130) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...His sonorous croon takes centre-stage...with the musical backing refined to a tasteful minimalism....the music is beautiful enough to render even the worst indulgences palatable..."Alternative Press (11/99, pp.94-5) - 5 out of 5 - "...the most exhilarating beautiful music he's ever made....packs an intensity that far transcends its running time..."CMJ (10/18/99, p.25) - "...a traditional folk record, dressed up in the Medieval grandeur of Perry's soul-searching vision."Mojo (Publisher) (10/99, pp.98-9) - "...it's quality we want, and get. Perry's sonorous, innantely sorrowful voice glides around in spacious, glacial surrounds, like an aching ghost....The mood is folk-gothic, archaic and cinematic, with bare-bone arrangements..."6.606026
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Q (12/99, p.170) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Gothic Albums Of All Time - "...it remains the definitive statement: a taut, unsettling canvas rich with vampiric imagery...and the dungeonly baritone of Maxell advert's Pete Murphy."Record Collector (magazine) (p.91) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Musically, this is a timeless statement of dark, magnificent metal prowess and clarity."6.606026
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Spin (10/98, p.146) - 6 (out of 10) - "...The whole record has a muffled, under-the-covers vibe--something to do with the claustrophobic effect of her keyboards, especially the harmonium's oxygen-depleted sound. All this gives SLIDE a cozy charm..."6.606026
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Alternative Press (p.200) - "[T]heir manic surf riffs and diffracted twang-punk were a revelation..."6.606026
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Rolling Stone (11/25/93, p.120) - 3.5 Stars - Good Plus - "...RED HOUSE PAINTERS is more accessible [than the second album]..."Q (12/93, p.121) - 3 Stars - Good - "...An acquired taste, but worth investigating..."Melody Maker (1/1/94, p.77) - Ranked #27 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993 - "...beautiful and intoxicating..."6.606026
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Spin (1/99, p.117) - "...has moments as boppy as anything on the radio..."6.606026
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Rolling Stone (9/20/90) - 3 Stars - Good "...what stands out is the beat that throbs like a hangover, the fever-dream atmospherics, the pelvis- grinding abandon...potent and compelling.."Spin (11/90) - "..Pop and noise...mutate into new beasts.."Entertainment Weekly - "..Dark, biting post-modern rock.." - Rating: AQ (12/99, p.68) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."Q - 4 Stars - Excellent - Ranked as the #9 Album of 1990.Village Voice - "..they march out tunes so simple and confident and power riffs so grandly declamatory that you learn to understand the choruses by singing them.." - Rating: ABlender (Magazine) (p.86) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir sunniest record: 'Velouria' is their greatest love song after 'Gigantic'; 'Ana' is a sand-speckled surfer idyll..."6.606026
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Entertainment Weekly (3/19/04, p.65) - "[A] volatile mix with a touch of fidgety elegance." - Grade: B-Uncut (4/04, p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 - "These are seductive confections, all blurred strings, magical chimes and tear-stained metaphysics."CMJ (4/04, p.35) - "Densely layered and orchestrated, with swelling strings and keyboards often burying the twin guitars and drums of Kazu Makino and brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace, MISERY has a cinematic quality, as if its songs were art-house shorts."Mojo (Publisher) (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A]s the album title suggests, they've carved a bleak and beautiful album; their best, in fact."6.606026
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Entertainment Weekly (No. 833, p.79) - "...[D]raws impressively from the far-flung fields of folk, classical, and new wave...." - Grade: BThe Wire (p.61) - "[T]his music's shoreline is made up of instrumental delicacy and subtle arrangements, which burble, froth and foam washing over the listener with an insistent but gentle force."Mojo (Publisher) (p.101) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[T]his is chic pop electronica..."6.606026
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Muzik (11/00, p.117) - 4 out of 5 - "...Vital....some of the most celestial music the pre-house days produced....A winner."6.606026
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Q (4/01, p.121) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Exciting proof that artfulness and rocking hard need not be mutually exclusive..."6.606026
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Rolling Stone (3/6/03, p.71) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...[Their] rawest record yet....The album's sonic simplicity and emotional complications are inspired by blues and folk as well as the Ramones..." Mojo (4/03, p.97) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...With a live, lo-fi groove, and an energetic Tanya Donelly on guest backing vocals, this feels like some return to form..."The Wire (3/03, p.68) - "...The new Throwing Muses album marks a storming return....The reunited group burn through their new material with a shocking vigour..."6.606026
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Rolling Stone (3/6/03, p.71) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...The album showcases her inward poetics....A triumph..."Entertainment Weekly (3/14/03, p.67) - "...There's something in Hersh's hushed, otherworldy hymns about dysfunction and off-center mental states that's deeply unsettling--in all the right ways....She's got our vote for the title Ice Queen of Acoustic Ladyland..." - Rating: A-Mojo (Publisher) (4/03, p.97) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Hersh's voice is measured, husky, and quietly defiant, the sound of the Muses' ambient alter ego..."6.606026
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Spin (p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE DRIFT is an intimidating slab of off-kilter guitar wheedles, weird percussion, thudding synths, and that voice: soaring, roaring..."Alternative Press (p.210) - "With THE DRIFT, Walker has gone as far into the atmosphere as one can travel while still being earthbound."The Wire (p.50) - "THE DRIFT has real, corporeal impact....The ten songs on THE DRIFT document states of personal and political uncertainty..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he spectre of his old aesthetic preoccupations -- modernist literature, nouvelle vague cinema, existential angst -- is evident throughout."6.606026
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Spin (p.106) - "[T]here is a career-spanning clutch of songs that you want - need - to play over and over again....All are here, on one handy disc..."Q (p.112) - 5 stars out of 5 - "Their records offer mischief and surrealism and bursts of sexed-up joie de vivre....They were simultaneously crazy and compassionate."Uncut (p.102) - 5 stars out of 5 - "[T]hese ripples on the surface of silence are strictly beautiful...the tracks are framed by theory rather than antic wit."6.606026
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Uncut (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] a brooding, inviting theatricality....Dark cabaret with an unhinged, dervish energy."Magnet (p.88) - "Ford hoots, hollers and whispers like a rapidly deflating zeppelin gasping its way to a furious Hindenburg death rush. Her voice leaps, woes, wails and sputters..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "This Brooklyn-based trio are thrilling performers: a mesmeric swirl of Weimar Republic cabaret, feral post-punk and supper club novelty."6.606026
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Rolling Stone (3/6/03, p.71) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Darnielle's emotional cues remain sharp and witty; he holds it together by getting slightly unhinged..."Uncut (2/03, p.78) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Bitterness never sounded so sweet..."Magnet (1/03, p.99) - "...Darnielle invests each line with devastating gravity....Gripping - and so incredibly real..."CMJ (11/11/01, p.7) - "...An eerily beautiful set of howling numbers..."Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...[The songs] are luminous, gently witty, full of surprising and indelible images....Much of TALLAHASSEE is remarkable for its lightness of touch..."6.606026
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Alternative Press (10/01, p.84) - 8 out of 10 - "...This is blues no one should ever want to get rid of..."Magnet (9-10/01, p.95) - "...Peacefully sublime..."The Wire (1/02, p.40) - Ranked #47 in Wire's "50 Records of the Year 2001".The Wire (8/01, p.66) - "...A pleasant surprise....open-hearted songs in discreet settings informed by contemporary R&B..."CMJ (8/4/01, p.10) - "...Defever further explores the soulful, bluesy vibe that emerged on last year's WHEN THE STARS REFUSE TO SHINE..."Mojo (Publisher) (9/01, p.97) - "...Exceptional stuff..."NME (Magazine) (7/14/01, p.44) - 6 out of 10 - "...In his quest for perfect modernist pop...his wandering eye has fashionably fixed on R&B....highlighting his abundant production skills..."6.606026
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Entertainment Weekly (1/23/04, p.99) - "[Pairs] her voice-from-beyond with portentous arrangements....The result is something like the aural version of majesty..." - Rating: BQ (2/04, p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 - "It's a gorgeous, near-religious record....It overflows with dignity."Uncut (2/04, p.74) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[L]isten harder and denser textures and nuances lie beneath the surface."Magnet (2/04, p.98) - "[I]t's grand to hear her near-wordless woe presented in an open, uncluttered field of ambient wallpaper, sober synthesizers and lean lines of violin and cello."Mojo (Publisher) (2/04, p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Huge, awesome, tear-stinging stuff....Epic, exhilarating, extraordinary."6.606026
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Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.136) - Ranked # 26 in Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums"Rolling Stone (10/14/93) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...LAST SPLASH gives the impression that the band eschews practice. The fuzzy and lopsided sounds are....the raw progeny of an unabashed, unconventional creativity....LAST SPLASH will make you hope this isn't the Breeders' last plunge...."Spin (9/99, p.138) - Ranked #39 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."Spin (9/93, p.115) - Highly Recommended - "...The Breeders' second album spins out as a litany of summer--or, rather, a summer of rock'n'roll....like PJ Harvey's RID OF ME, LAST SPLASH claims the spotlight--the sun--and has no trouble commanding the stage..."Entertainment Weekly (8/27/93-9/3/93, p.112) - "...[The Breeders] continue to subvert the classic girl-group melodies of the past with raw guitar miracles of the future..." - Rating: A-Melody Maker (1/1/94, p.76) - Ranked #12 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993 - "...it's addictive, joyous and sexy as sin...."Village Voice (3/1/94, p.5) - Ranked #4 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.NME (Magazine) (12/25/93, p.67) - Ranked #36 in New Musical Express' list of `The Top 50 LPs Of 1993' - "...a fascinating collection of styles....an intoxicating mixture of light and shade..."6.606026
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Spin (p.84) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[It bears] the mark of Big Star, the Memphis power-pop institution whose twangy jangle-rock lessons Halstead appears to have internalized."CMJ (p.5) - "[T]he album consists mostly of melodic, country-tinged indie rock."No Depression (p.111) - "Stuffed with bubblegum choruses, faster time signatures, and several of the most unapologetically catchy, pure pop tracks they've ever committed to tape."6.606026
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CMJ (p.4) - "They've created a sound unlike either member's prior incarnations, rife with breathy, concertina-like sounds and Hinson's bold, rumbling voice."6.606026
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