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Black Market Music loses its sparkle and its melodic sense whenever it grows a conscience.
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Black Market Music feels like a watershed, a merely good record after a great one, and that in itself is disappointing.
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Do all of these elements add up to an album that offers something more than the usual steady diet of carefully polished, capably executed, but ultimately unremarkable angst-ridden punk-pop? Answer -- probably not.
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Placebo's indie-glam rock fusion still sounds on CD like a good idea, and little more.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 60 out of 66
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Mixed: 3 out of 66
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Negative: 3 out of 66
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Mar 4, 2013
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anna*Aug 23, 2003
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MichaelL.Jun 14, 2002