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For every breathtaking melodic rush like Don't Save Us From the Flames, with its guitars whizzing and whooshing like fireworks, there is a piece of portentous tosh like Moonchild, which calls to mind Spinal Tap and a scale model of Stonehenge.
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Have you ever fallen asleep during the X-Files’ opening credits, then awoken to a Volkswagen commercial? Have you ever wanted to?
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Rolling StoneDoesn't have enough finesse to hold your interest all the way. [27 Jan 2005, p.61]
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Paste MagazineA lusher, synthier and all-around grandiose slab of shoegazer emoting and New Age cinematics. [#14, p.120]
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Alternative PressAlthough M83's ambitions are often great, there is a problem here: Before The Dawn often drags its feet. [Mar 2005, p.138]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 53 out of 56
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Mixed: 2 out of 56
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Negative: 1 out of 56
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Oct 16, 2013best album everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Jun 25, 2023It has some great and unique tracks, however the middle of the album was such a dead spot to me.
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Jun 29, 2021