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- Summary: This is the first studio disc in four years for the Irish quartet, who are massively popular in their native country.
- Record Label: Anti
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 17
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Mixed: 6 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Jaysus lads, get out the oven mitts – this one smokes.
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Far and away the group's most determined work of its 15-year career.
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PlanetMeticulous recording, layered songwriting, and a little bit of "special effects" turns a bunch of good songs into a great album. [#9, p.70]
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Burn the Maps is an elemental journey that tugs at the heart and sticks around in the mind.
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BlenderMaps... swap[s] the band's trademark dreariness for the U2-style arena-rock sweep that makes their live shows... so exciting. [Mar 2005, p.140]
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While nearly any song on Burn the Maps works effectively, the album as a whole can't quite maintain its momentum with such structural repetition.
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MagnetOnce a means to subvert pop/rock formula, the band's abruptly shifting dynamics have themselves become formulaic. [#67, p.97]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 25
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Mixed: 2 out of 25
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Negative: 2 out of 25
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GerFeb 26, 2005Pure brilliance, a fantastic album!
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MarekIMar 29, 2005Just more then great album!
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HeinMay 3, 2006Very Good!
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JohnPJan 4, 2006The best album I've come across in a long while.
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LouisFJun 14, 2005
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Jan 4, 2012
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utMay 5, 2005Absolutely horrible album.
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