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  • Summary: The Canadian indie pop outfit return with a melodic and mood-driven new album, their fifth release of eclectic, dreamy rock.

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  1. Positive: 13 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Feb 11, 2011
    91
    The Dears were churning out sweeping, blustery epics long before "dramatic indie rock from Canada" was its own subgenre, and Degeneration Street, the band's fifth album sees them perfecting the template.
  2. Uncut
    Mar 29, 2011
    60
    At 14 tracks, what begins as a demonstration of impressive ambition ends up dragging. [Apr 2011, p.78]
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  3. Pitchfork
    Feb 15, 2011
    24
    With inchoate, banal lyrics and blustering tunes that go for it all, all the time, Degeneration Street sounds like the product of too much euphoria. Definitely catch the Dears on the comedown, if at all.

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    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. An excelent album, no more words. what else can i say....oh yes.. just a question; what kind of persons work in Pitchfork?, o better say "PItchFUCK", they have their tastes in their backs; is terrible that persons like these work writing something that they call a review.… Expand
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