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The Rising Tide
by Sunny Day Real Estate
MUSIC:
| LABEL: |
Time Bomb |
| RELEASE DATE: |
20 June 2000 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Indie, Rock |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Ink Blot Magazine
It is a strange album for Sunny Day in that it lingers in an abstract realm that the band previously only hinted at.... album is SDRE's most mature work to date. It is so musically dense and complex.

80
Magnet
It's as if SDRE was trying to make every album it thought Rush should have cut after Moving Pictures - simultaneously dark, textural, riff-based and cliche-free, yet filled with the sort of sweeping gestures and lofty arrangements you usually find in vintage prog.

80
All Music Guide
It's some of the band's fullest-sounding work, rich with strings and keyboard flourishes... The Rising Tide is one of Sunny Day Real Estate's -- and 2000's -- most impressive albums.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Another remarkable, evolutionary chapter in the stormy history of one of rock's best young bands.

71
Wall of Sound
The band is beguilingly hypnotic, making music that is decidedly off-kilter. Guitars swirl, grind, and mesh with fluid rhythms and haunting melodies.

70
Sonicnet
On this latest offering there's hardly any indication that the band was ever the product of post-grunge Seattle.... But this refined sound is also where The Rising Tide starts to sink.

70
Spin
But it's like the guitars have had their teeth fixed and bleached, like a extremely loud Colgate commercial.

70
MTV.com
The slick strings and piano emphasized later in the album aren't as moving as the cascading guitar and Enigk's vulnerable-boy vanity.

60
Rolling Stone
The grandiose production, by Lou Giordano (Goo Goo Dolls, Live), matches the quasi-mystical visions mapped out in the songs....

60
Nude As The News
SDRE has always flirted with prog-rock machinations, but some of these songs are just too over the top to be written off as experiments in musical nostalgia.

59
Pitchfork
So, essentially, this is the pop record '70s prog bands would make in the '80s-- Big Generator and Power Windows for a new generation. Aside from two major blunders nothing is overtly offensive, but simply lachrymose and lactose.

50
Billboard
There's an odd allegiance to the overblown prog-rock theatrics of Rush... and Yes... that seems incongruous alongside earnest Beatles homages... and straight-up, gloom-rock confessionals.

50
CDNow
The album, as a whole, is not a washout; it just doesn't live up to the hype and expectations.


The average user rating for this album is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
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