• Record Label: Matador
  • Release Date: Sep 22, 2009
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Uncut
    60
    If the audio quality is a mite cleaner this time, it seems the band have made the songs a little more prickly. [Oct 2009, p.112]
  2. Under The Radar
    40
    Some of the dissonant shouts would still be rough on the ears with cleaner production, but at least it'd be possible to hear what was going on. [Fall 2009, p.67]
  3. Don't get me wrong, this isn't an Emperor's New Clothes review, just an expression of concern: there aren't enough reasons for casual listeners to come back to this.
  4. They show that they can write sloppy songs with real hooks and something to bop along to. Something that rarely happens thereafter, unfortunately.
  5. TNV’s latest rises above previous efforts thanks to anthemic No Time, No Hope, which might jog memories of a barely coherent Lou Reed.
  6. Most bands are simply prolonging the genre’s decline by playing insensibly catchy pop under the sonic crust we’ve come to know it for. Failing either, we’re left with the dull ad nauseums of the musical record. And that, in a sentence, is Born Again Revisited.
  7. If this album were about four songs shorter, you could hear its beat better.
  8. For an album so brazenly loud it leaves little impression; as a record supposedly about statements, it makes very few intelligibly. Most inexcusably, it lacks imagination.
  9. Avant-rockers make shameless play for the aging Generation X market.

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