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The Wire

Marks a radical departure in its scope and overall sound.... Unwound have reinvented their music as Progressive hardcore, framing abstract conceits in rock solid structures. This brave, ambitious record retains its edge in a blur of invention. [#206, p.76]

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Splendid

A powerful masterpiece of an album.

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Pitchfork

In many respects, Leaves Turn Inside You is the band's most ambitious, sweeping, and difficult outing yet.... I'm convinced that, if you've been following this band's development, the initial bewildered expression on your face will give way to total enchantment, and this new, boldly different Unwound album will have you in its grip for months to come.

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Drawer B

It is the band’s most fully realized musical achievement.... A monumental album by a monumental band.

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Neumu.net

Even in the record's most strung-out moments of tension and distortion, Unwound sound nothing more than soft and sweet.

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All Music Guide

A unique, epic effort from one of the most inventive and dynamic rock bands in recent memory.

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Spin

Rounding off the edges of its tried and true punk-rock grind with the melodic and rhythmic tropes of '60s psychedelia, Unwound has perfectly re-imagined a sound that most art-students wouldn't even spit on the first time around.

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CDNow

Unlike the band's earlier material, which echoed with thunderous volume, Leaves Turn Inside You is textural and sedate, combining the hazy urgency of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation with the creativity of Yo La Tengo and the ethereality of Slowdive.

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PopMatters

Unwound plays with a tightness and richness that few bands can touch anymore; they have turned into the metal Minutemen.

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Nude As The News

This album is to Unwound what Daydream Nation was to Sonic Youth: the application of wild imagination and ruthless harmonies to a more mainstream format, while largely dispensing with their heritage and experiments.

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Alternative Press

This is Unwound's Kid A, in that they've turned their back on the rock in favor of something more atmospheric, but even more significantly, they've tossed out all the old recipes and made the future unpredictable. Problem is, they've fixed something that wasn't broken. [Jul 2001, p.85]

Mojo

A string quartet, reverby backing vocals, and Kraut keys crowd the songs like weeds strangling a once hearty plant. [May 2001, p.104]

Village Voice

Where Unwound's songs have usually been jagged or drained, Leaves Turn Inside You remains level for two discs (almost 80 minutes), making it one of the darkest, most placid hard rock records since Soundgarden's Superunknown.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.3 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes

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[Anonymous] gave it a9:
Amazing.

Eliot gave it a 2:
A droning, overwrought failure which betrays the originality of their earlier records.

chotty gave it a 7:
What's with the electronica

Davide C. gave it a 10:
It's great

William D. gave it a 10:
The best album of 2001 by a longshot.

Nicolas F. gave it a 9:
Well balanced album, between "epic introscopic" songs and sophisticated violence.

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