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Q MagazineApr 9, 2013At only 37 minutes long, it never outstays its welcome. [May 2013, p.99]
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Apr 8, 2013Certainly this record is relevant, and maybe even worth listening to with some regularity. But I can't help but feel that this album is just a watered down Arcade Fire rather than the aural adventure that others seem to hear.
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Apr 8, 2013It’s an album that washes over, vying for attention, but never quite succeeds in grabbing it, and never quite living up to what Cold War Kids could be.
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Apr 5, 2013Dear Miss Lonelyhearts fails to reach back far enough to the band’s less polished, indie blues-fueled Robbers & Cowards days, but at least integrates that sound with hints of the striving-for-stadiums pop-rock Mine Is Yours offered up.
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UncutApr 1, 2013Four albums in, and Cold War Kids still feel like a band trying to decide what they are. [May 2013, p.69]
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Apr 1, 2013While the album does lose some of its focus and direction towards the end, Dear Miss Lonelyhearts is undoubtedly a much better album than Mine Is Yours.
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Apr 1, 2013As a whole, it feels slightly temporary and detached, largely thanks to its uneven pacing and experimental streak.
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Under The RadarJun 13, 2013Singer Nathan Willett's voice comes off as wandering over uninspired changes. [Jun-Jul 2013, p.97]
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Apr 22, 2013All the literary ambitions and drama-rock gestures fall in a ponderous heap--like CWK are losing an arms race with their own pretensions.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 16
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Mixed: 1 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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