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Breach

EMAILPRINTby Wallflowers

Wallflowers reviews
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9.7 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 16 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 19 votes
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Album Info

Label: Interscope

Release Date: 10 October 2000

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Rock, Alternative

Summary

What The Critics Said

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90

All Music Guide

On the surface, there's not much different between this album and its predecessor, but the songs are stronger, sharper, and the performances are lean, muscular, and immediate.

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89

Wall of Sound

Listening to Breach, the meat-and-potatoes rock of Bruce Springsteen and especially Tom Petty comes immediately to mind... Breach is one of the most anticipated rock releases of the year, and it clearly is worthy of all the talk it has generated.

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83

Entertainment Weekly

There's one big knock to be made against ''Breach'': It lacks the spark of the new, the original. Both lyrically and musically, Dylan works within traditional forms rather than pushing at boundaries... Dylan is more craftsman than innovator (in this way he resembles John Mellencamp), and some listeners will be put off by the feeling they've heard it all before.

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80

Revolver

In terms of its sound, it is far less exuberant than 'Bringing Down the Horse,' far more stripped-down and varied in its arrangements.

80

MTV.com

Jakob Dylan and his team have fashioned an album that's longer on big guitars, crunchy grooves and cool changes than overt confessionals. All told, Breach is a subtle, seamless effort with nary a lull or misstep -- in contrast to its multiplatinum predecessor, the second half of which suffered from a series of pedestrian songs.

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80

Rolling Stone

The slow stuff might be a bit ponderous, but the first six or seven songs manage a rare trick: They're incandescent enough to jump out at you on the radio, yet are steeped in a type of introspective inquiry that was once integral to rock & roll, and has nearly vanished.

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80

Launch.com

A strong, solidly melodic rock album, gorgeously written, tastefully arranged, and impeccably played.

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80

Billboard

In a sea of trend-conscious releases, "Breach" will wash over the senses like a cool, refreshing breeze. Although it's a completely contemporary and competitive entry into today's market, you won't find even the tiniest musical element that will render this set irrelevant or outdated in 10 years.

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70

Spin Cycle

Fans will be happy to find Jakob more upfront, and keyboardist Rami Jaffe utilized, but differently than past straightforward organ parts.

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70

Sonicnet

Jakob Dylan and his team have fashioned an album that's longer on big guitars, crunchy grooves and cool changes than overt confessionals. All told, Breach is a subtle, seamless effort with nary a lull or misstep -- in contrast to its multiplatinum predecessor, the second half of which suffered from a series of pedestrian songs.

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70

CDNow

Breach is equal parts likeable, lyrical jamming, and inflated mediocrity. The Wallflowers achieve their most noteworthy moments in their uptempo, instrumentally thick songs, such as the first track, "Letters from the Wasteland," and "Sleepwalker." When the band leans hard on lyrics as the primary stability of a song, the album falters a bit ("Witness," for example, is slow and tedious).

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67

Village Voice (Consumer Guide)

Though he comes up with strong melodies, he's hardly a match for Ben Folds or Elliott Smith, both of whom frame their catchy stuff more idiosyncratically and neither of whom is terribly interesting even so.

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60

Q Magazine

Generic, maybe, but very nicely done. [Nov. 2000, p.117]

50

HOB.com

Nowhere on Breach are the Wallflowers offensively bad like Matchbox 20, but the songs would be better described as lullabies than rockers.... It's pleasant stuff to keep in the background, but for all that pleasantness nothing stands out as especially beautiful or even memorable.

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40

Spin

Nothing ventures beyond the tunefully middle-of-the-road, nor does any song manage the effortless historicity of good album rock. [Nov. 2000, p.206]

20

Mojo

Breach is a dull affair of humdrum tunes, mundane performance, and lyrics which lose themselves in vague imagery as if Dylan were actually evading the chance to express himself.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.7 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

adrea s gave it a10:
an amazing cd! Still love it years later!

Tania G gave it a9:
That s because the purpuse of this album is quite different to Bringing down the horse. The first 4 or 5 songs are the strongest part of it. And of course Baby Bird, if I could I ll rakn it on 9.5 Bird, a lullabie

David R gave it a10:
This is one of the best albums I have heard in a long, long time. Muscular, lean, and forward-driving. No excess. This is a musician's album, not a pop-radio album. Reading some reviews leaves me feeling like the world is full of idiots.

Kelley W gave it a10:
The best of the four Wallflowers albums. Highly recomended.

Ryan G gave it a 10:
This album has amazing songs, such "as up from under", which people refuse to recognize. I play guitar and enjoy the Wallflowers style, which is hardly "simple".

Ross M. gave it a 8:
The kind of ablum that plays nicely as a soundtrack to your life. Cheerful and uplifting melancoly...the best sort.

Sara R. gave it a 10:
This album rox my sox....

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