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A Certain Trigger Image
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 37 Ratings

  • Summary: A somewhat unusual signing for Warp Records, the guitar-oriented Maximo Park (who sound not unlike a cross between the Futureheads and Franz Ferdinand) make their full-length debut with this Paul Epworth-produced disc.

Top Track

I Want You To Stay
I rewrite my life, beneath moonlight Please hold me now, till my breath runs out There are many things, that I am not But there's one thing that, I... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Most of A Certain Trigger's album tracks sound like singles waiting to be discovered.
  2. The high points are so fantastic that their missteps are easily forgiven.
  3. A Certain Trigger is a strong release from its opener on, though it has noticeable shifts in momentum, with a second, rousing tour de force in its closing tracks.
  4. A great little guitar rock record.
  5. It remains an awfully good first effort, and the boys clearly have some exciting ideas - not enough to fill the entire disc, but exciting nonetheless.
  6. As much as a lot of the tracks are just bluster + accent + guitars, there are some melodies hidden along the way and the bluster + accent + guitars here are better than those pimped by the likes of The Others and Kaiser Chiefs and so on and so forth.
  7. As formulaic and boring a rock album as you’re likely to hear in 2005.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 25
  2. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Annie
    Jul 19, 2005
    10
    I absolutely LOVED this album, stumbled upon them by accident and fell in love completely. This is defo my album of 2005 and im so glad i I absolutely LOVED this album, stumbled upon them by accident and fell in love completely. This is defo my album of 2005 and im so glad i found it-listen and make up your own minds but as a hot young(22) woman in a crappy town i feel they soaked up everything that relates to me so so so so well :-) 10 out of 10, they make it their own :-) Well Done lads cant wait for a tour xx Expand
  2. Heyhoe
    Jul 31, 2005
    10
    Great Album, I especially like Once a glimpse and Limmassol.
  3. DavidT
    Oct 2, 2005
    10
    Never gets dull, always surprises and is just a brilliant album.
  4. JOSES
    Jun 1, 2005
    9
    Great album,great band !
  5. DuncanB
    Dec 8, 2005
    9
    fantastic album (apart from acrobat) and one of the best I've heard this year
  6. ShawnG
    Jul 11, 2005
    8
    A quality album (IMHO) that people will either like or hate for the same reason. That reason being there are lots of clever single ideas. A quality album (IMHO) that people will either like or hate for the same reason. That reason being there are lots of clever single ideas. People will like it if they find an album of clever ideas good listening regardless as to whether they make a coherent 'album.' Some will hate it because it doesn't sound like a coherent 'album,' and it probably isn't. Personally, I think the qualities of their concepts and songwriting overcomes any problems of cohesion for the whole. A quality band and a good buy. Expand
  7. tim
    May 10, 2007
    5
    More proof that 2005 went down as the worst year in music history.

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