- Record Label: [self-released]
- Release Date: Jun 28, 2005
User Score
Universal acclaim- based on 350 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 298 out of 350
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Mixed: 27 out of 350
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Negative: 25 out of 350
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JamieSSep 7, 2005very very average. too similar to the arcade fire for comfort. very very very stupid name. boring.
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gtaJul 10, 2005its OK but that song "home on ice" is just great
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lozdJul 1, 2005it's the classic story of rock and roll : what sounds like a violent femmes covers band make deeply average record and are rocketed to fame by deeply pretentious online music mag. brill.
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wazsiemJul 24, 2005WHAT IS HIS VOICE? IT HURTS MY SOUL! He sounds atrocious. the hype is unjustified. the only thing that saves this album is the music that is there, under his wailing terrible voice.
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DocZeeJul 4, 2005
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JimMOct 28, 2005Can you say "over hyped"?! If you're over-hyped and you know, clap your hands! Love the music, can't stand the nasal singing. Maybe I can process it and remove the vocals. Underwhelming! But promising!
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SteveWJul 10, 2005Clap your hands, say "Yeah this is overrated!"
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MarkCJul 4, 2005Not too shabby, but certainly not worthy of the praise from the Pitchfork hype machine. Upbeat and catchy? Sure. Annoying and repetitive? Indeed.
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WilliamLAug 5, 2005Fundamentally, what we have here is Talking Heads meets Pavement meets Joy Division. A basically decent album with a few very good songs (particularly the last two), but after a few listenings, I still can't figure out why this record is getting so much attention. Still, if this band were to build further on the strengths of its best songs, it could eventually live up to the hype.
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WillyPNov 18, 2005Love the music, but the singer, yeeek! It's like being trapped in a room with an aggressive mentally handicapped person. And live, it sounds even worse.
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jimhDec 20, 2005They suck live. I also think this album is mediocre at best. The vocals are extremely weak and annoying. The music is good but you can't polish a turd now can you?
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atomgJul 10, 2005upbeat and catchy at times, but this album is vastly overrated.
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RicardoSTJul 13, 2005Feito para os "intelectualóides" de plantão.
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DannyOJul 13, 2005The music is good but old boy sounds like a cross between Bono and a cat in heat. More pitchfork hyperbole and snobification; these guys probably deserve a record deal but not a parade.
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JoeB.Jul 18, 2005
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[Anonymous]Jul 28, 2005
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TaTaJul 7, 2005Yeah it's alright but I agree with loz d. You get a couple of pretentious hit or miss self proclaimed "journalist" like pitchfork wanking about it and all of the sudden nothing has existed prior to this sound which is total rubbish. It's good but by no means original.
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scuttlebuggoodluckAug 12, 2005... aside from the bass player ripping off New Order riffs and the vocalist whining worse than a banshee in heat, it's not a bad album. Why some call this "the hottest thing on the entire internet" I will never comprehend. Overhyped, definitely... ...somebody please come up with something new, I'm getting bored here!
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JonEAug 3, 2005
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TomasSNov 17, 2005
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MichaelJJul 21, 2005
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ChristSep 25, 2005A thoroughly predictable and musically generic album, i don't get the (underserved) hype, these guys are an average indie rock band with a singer who has listened to too much Talking Heads but pretends like he's never heard them.
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TheRaptureSep 27, 2005Quite simple really: overrated.
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BethanneOJan 14, 2006
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PlatypusQuestNov 26, 2005The music is wonderful, but the vocals are undeniably terrible - and this is coming from someone who can get past the Grandmother's voice on the new Fiery Furnaces album. With a different vocalist, this album would be extraordinary - as is, it just leaves me thinking about what could have been. 6/10.
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LucM.Jun 14, 20082 giant tunes, but the rest is really boring.
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Awards & Rankings
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CYHSY’s songs ring of The Bends-era songwriting, but loungier, more playful, more comfortable in their own skin.
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The record is consistently, remarkably strong.
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If there are complaints to lobby against this remarkable debut, they lie mostly in its sound-quality. Namely, it sounds like what it was: self-recorded and self-released.