- Record Label: Kranky
- Release Date: Apr 7, 2007
User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 103 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 71 out of 103
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Mixed: 9 out of 103
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Negative: 23 out of 103
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ChillyB.Dec 2, 2007
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MartyM.Dec 8, 2007If you'd like to hear the next stars of the lid album, lie down next to your fridge for about 50 minutes complete rubbish.
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RobinC.Nov 18, 2007This is a joke,right? These critics have such a wacky sense of humour.
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CarmichaelC.Dec 12, 2007It's liking (or pretending to like) this sort of thing that gives critics a bad name.
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DennyF.Dec 8, 2007The album reminds me of what Brian Eno does better, esp. Music For Airports.
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ChrisCNov 17, 2007Indie kids decided that the new vogue was a bunch of random tones slowly fading in and out? Why didn't they send me a memo?!
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EdRNov 21, 2007It's just plain boring, really, isn't it?
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MattA.Nov 16, 2007This album licks my balls. It's even worse than The Field and so I guess it makes sense in an ironic way that it beats out that atrocity of an album for best of the year on this web site. The critics need to get a clue that they aren't proving anything by raving about this crap. It's aimless electronic nonsense and anyone with ears and half-decent taste in music can tell you that.
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MarkNov 29, 2007As the music drifts in an out of consciousness I found myself doing the same thing. If I wanted to make a physical comparison, this album is something of a desert. Like the deserts dunes this undulating soundscape ultimately leads you nowhere until you die of thirst.
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SpencerTDec 12, 2007The next person who says they love this album MUST explain why it isn't just another 80s/90s sci-fi movie soundtrack. There is NOTHING novel about the sound or melody (both words are singular - not plural) in this album.
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CCDec 14, 2007There's a difference between minimalism and beautiful minimalism, this one falls into the former.
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TwoodNov 28, 2007to quote Gertrude Stein "there's no there, there."
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IbanLDec 16, 2007Not only is this an inaccessible record but it has no redeeming qualities either. I liked The Tired Sounds of the Stars of the Lid because it had some really beautiful moments on it. Yet this is just so boring and sleep-inducing. 2 hours of absolutely no change. Sincerely, I'm really surprised that people can get to like (and adore) this.
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NickD.Dec 2, 2007This album should come pre-packaged with some hard drugs because I'm assuming that's the only way this dreck is enjoyable.
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MichaelN.Nov 19, 2007I'm not sure what the critics here are thinking because they seem to have a nice chart going and then you look at the top 2 albums and they are just ambient noise. If i want to go to sleep, i'll be a machine that plays ocean noises. If i want to listen to music, i'll put on a record that actually includes instruments and chord progressions.
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Stevej.Nov 26, 2007Are you kidding me? this record is awful and boring... of all the other minimal electronic out there this is an overall 9.1 i cannot believe it.
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DanielHNov 27, 2007
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Awards & Rankings
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It's an awesome thing, this album, and anyone, virtually anyone who encounters it will be in some way moved by the impure music it contains.
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Call it music for lucid dreaming, call it music for daydreams, or call it music for simply strolling in the dusk, this is another album that will stretch time and take you to another place.
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If nothing else, Stars of the Lid have achieved Adam's goal of making music "to really relax to," abjectly defying intent listening, laying waste to the established vocabulary of music production and appreciation.