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When the Walkmen are on, they can be as compelling as ever, but they’ve just spent too much time creating television-drama background music and not enough energy stretching themselves.
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Q MagazineThis is an album steeped in classicism while still creating its own world. It just lacks the killer song. [Oct 2006, p.127]
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New Musical Express (NME)A hundred miles off, and they might as well be a thousand. [16 Sep 2006, p.37]
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Under The RadarThroughout A Hundred Miles Off the songs are almost blistering, almost gut-wrenching, but almost is never enough. [#14]
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The CD's austere instrumentation brings out the worst in Leithauser, whose once-endearing tunelessness becomes a whining deterrent.
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The battle between the cream and the shit ends in a perpetual give and take, but it's the positives of A Hundred Miles Off we will remember in the long run.
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A Hundred Miles Off needs a single or a hook to balance its trebly extremes, and Leithauser's good-ol'-boy tenor has lost some of its edge, tripping too easily into the whiny nether regions.
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As a result of [Leithauser's] strangulated mewls and caterwauls, "A Hundred Miles Off" is at times very difficult to listen to indeed.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 35 out of 40
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Mixed: 5 out of 40
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Negative: 0 out of 40
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JanV.Jul 25, 2007
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CarolineDec 21, 2006A huge disappointment. This album is messy, rambling, and lacks the characteristic charm of The Walkmen.
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mattr.Aug 13, 2006