Q (Magazine) (p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Tatum gently pushes these songs beyond elegant pastiche."Mojo (Publisher) (p.88) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Tatum adds to the mix tropical pop textures, shimmery synth-pop gloss and twangy guitar solos that could melt hearts."Paste (magazine) - "This record has the same instant dream pop appeal Real Estate's DAYS boasted upon first listen..."0.3146352
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Spin (6/03, p.109) - "...Taut....'Mach Schau' is thunderous and snotty...and 'Counting Off the Days' exposes the band's fragile emo core..." - Grade: B+1.236686
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Down Beat (p.71) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Harper's recording moved beyond the folk idiom into a grander rock esthetic....In the course of several decades and still counting, Harper's eclectic muse remains undiminished."0.4111128
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Clash (magazine) - "Lead track 'Come Closer' is ballsy, anthemic infection, pulled off with an addictive and ignorant indie swagger. And 'Inhaler' is much of the same: brilliantly executed, explosive indie rock."0.2318771
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Rolling Stone (11/25/99, p.98) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...a couple of the best things they've ever done....[Adam] Duritz rises to the occasion of a stellar arrangement featuring discursive strings, spacey synths and river-deep basses..."Spin (12/99, p.222) - 6 out of 10 - "...strikes the same oddly compelling, melancholy chord as its predecessors - a crafty, referential rock that should play well to licensed psychotherapists and VH1 viewers alike....[DESERT LIFE affirms] that Counting Crows are genuinely affecting songwriters..."Q (12/99, pp.129-30) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...pushes [songwriter, Adam] Duritz to the fore, enhancing his narrative flair on the lengthy Mrs.Potter's Lullaby and the string-drenched 'All My Friends'..."CMJ (11/8/99, p.27) - "...whether the band is working out an up-tempo number or looking deep into itself on ballads, each track on THIS DESERT LIFE is compelling, powerful and poetic."Mojo (Publisher) (12/99, p.125) - "...a sandbank of relentless, parochial misery....amiable...yet, generates a worrying, overwhelming sadness..."0.2047933
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JazzTimes (6/99, p.123) - "...animated discussions that especially catch the ear and the imagination."0.1987518
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Q (6/00, p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - "A novel splicing of boy-band looks with sunny power-pop....Brandishing 4-paqrt harmonies...and the kind of surf-splashed melodies on which Neil Finn built a career....Too perfect by half."0.1987518
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Dirty Linen (Apr/May 93, p.79) - "...They have perfected the classic bluegrass harmony vocals, that 'high, lonesome' sound..."0.1656265
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Entertainment Weekly (pp.82-4) - "[The album] shows they've retained their flair for shiny hooks and singable melodies." - Grade: B+0.1656265
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Q (6/00, p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - "A novel splicing of boy-band looks with sunny power-pop....Brandishing 4-paqrt harmonies...and the kind of surf-splashed melodies on which Neil Finn built a career....Too perfect by half."0.1656265
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Alternative Press (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hey've filled the long-awaited CARDIOLOGY with the kind of snot-nosed pop-punk that made them stars in the first place..."Billboard (p.36) - "Last Night,' humorously recounting a post-party blackout, mixes Rolling Stones guitar hooks with a slamming four-on-the-floor beat."Mojo (Publisher) (p.96) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]nyone with a soft spot for air-punching high school pop-rock might be unable to resist the choruses of 'There She Goes' or 'First Plane Home.'"0.1656265
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Alternative Press (p.156) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "MIDHEAVEN is a real balancing act: 'Metanoia' is all blast and bark, while 'The World Is A Tomb' aches with emotion, indicated in the piano and swooshing keyboards."CMJ - "[T]he Human Abstract bend metal into a technically progressive form that still offers instrumental variation and throaty, guttural melodies."0.1656265
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Alternative Press (5/00, p.88) - 3 out of 5 - "...Waves the pop-punk torch higher and more flamboyantly than most of their peers, delivering short, breathless, occasionally profane and remarkably similar 3-minute jolts of punk energy..."CMJ (3/20/00, p.25) - "...[They] take cues from the Offspring and wisely invests in some rock'n'roll tunings; STOMPING GROUND is well-rounded because of it."0.1656265
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