Back Numbers
by Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham
  • Record Label: Rounder
  • Release Date: Feb 27, 2007
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10

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  1. ThomasB
    Mar 20, 2007
    6
    If anyone ever sleepwalked through a career in music, it's Dean Wareham. His somnambulist tunes -- from Galaxie 500 through Luna and now Dean & Britta with his wife -- pass like ephemeral dreams. They're highly enjoyable in the moment but, like most dreams, are quickly forgotten in the cold light of morning. "Back Numbers" is unfailingly pleasant, but I'll be darned if I If anyone ever sleepwalked through a career in music, it's Dean Wareham. His somnambulist tunes -- from Galaxie 500 through Luna and now Dean & Britta with his wife -- pass like ephemeral dreams. They're highly enjoyable in the moment but, like most dreams, are quickly forgotten in the cold light of morning. "Back Numbers" is unfailingly pleasant, but I'll be darned if I can remember a single hook, lyric or melody even after multiple listenings.… Expand

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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Under The Radar
    70
    The arrangements almost entirely abandon the Velvets/Television electric guitar bedrock on which Luna was founded, instead adopting a basic structure of strummed acoustic guitar, spare orchestration, and burbling synths. [#16, p.90]
  2. PopMatters
    80
    Arriving where Luna was already headed at their breakup, the album feels much more realized than that band ever did at their end.
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  3. NOW Magazine
    100
    Not a dud in the entire meticulous love letter to a da-do-ron-ron era.
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