My choice for album of the year! I know, I know were only in March but I just don't see any other album coming out this year that's capable of topping this in anyway. DYLRM is loaded with beautiful and epic rock songs. For example, No Lucifer, Lights Out for Darker Skies, Waving Flags, A Trip Out, which are all capable of someday becoming true rock classic anthems.

If this is considered "rock music," then I guess the answer to the question is: "Not really." Lyrically awkward at times, musically dull at times, it feels like there's a lot of filler here. Don't get me wrong: there are a handful of decent-to-good tracks, but you've gotta hunt for them.

This album reminds me strongly of U2's Joshua Tree. Not so much musically - though BSP clearly owes a musical debt to early U2 - but in its unique sort of ambition. This is BSP's moon shot, it's Big Statement, and it's so bombastic and intense and grand that it skates right up to the edge of pomposity and pretense. But they rescue themselves by simply never doing anything wrong. If it were less musically excellent, if the lyrics were less interesting or more standard, if the guitars rocked a little less hard, it'd be an unmitigated disaster of ego and pomp. There's a ring of authentic inspiration here, a genuineness that provides some substance to the big sounds; were it not there, it'd sound hollow and forced. A solid 9; not Echo and the Bunnymen's "Porcupine" but pretty damn good.… Expand

This is an excellent album. Such honesty and creativity in the lyrics and liner notes. I haven't enjoyed soaking in a new album this much in a while. Pitchfork has really missed the boat. They vomit hype on a sham like Vampire Weekend, as British Sea Power falls from "grace". I love rock music.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Pitchfork got it right. This album really disappoints and will probably be the most overrated album of 2008, it's this year's Neon Bible.It really is the decline of BSP (lol?).Also lol@ all the BSP fanboys who got pissy about U point 2.

Brilliant CD. Hopefully this will bring BSP the Stateside popularity that is long overdue!

Pitchfork's "U.2" rating equates to a 4.0? Ouch. That's odd because this is quite a fine album. British Sea Power never caught on with me but this release just might make me a convert.

An incredible epic album! Not since Interpol's classic "Turn on the Bright Lights" have I been constantly blown away everytime I listen to an album. This great music here.

Great album!

No Lucifer rules. Well recorded, well played, well sequenced. Just missing sometime, and I'm not sure what it is. Maybe too overloaded. I dunno. For as good as it is while I'm listening to it, I don't find myself wanting to listen to it all the time.

After having seen BSP live here in Louisville, KY, my appreciation for the splendors of DYLRM? have gained dimension. It's not that these lads wield hefty lyrical ambitions with care, bringing in military history, physics, ornithology, et al--it's that they bring it in with understanding. There is something very truthful about this record that is worthy of close attention.

Wonderful sweeping album. A band of rare quality.

A majestic, roaring and - yes - rockin' third album from one of England's finest bands.....almost every song grows to five times its normal size, and brings the epic goosebumps with it. If you love sprawling guitar crescendos and slow-burners that build to slam-bang finales, you're in luck. Much more consistent and engaging than it's predecessor, Open Season...but not quite as stunning as the band's debut, The Decline of British Sea Power.… Expand

I have been playing this non-stop for a month. The huge anthems are brilliant, but the quieter songs grow and grow the more you hear them. With this album BSP is opening up its heart to us - welcome in!

A Definite Masterpiece! Probably there best work of there career. Which is saying a lot considering how good there last two albums were.

Glorious third album by BSP. You can tell these guys are influenced by U2, The Who, Joy Division, and the Cure But...have also carved out there sound at the same time. "Do You Like Rock Music" is the first masterpiece of 08.

Great from start to finish.

Like a cross between an old Joy Division record (as so many have noted) and last year's "Neon Bible" by the Arcade Fire, this record works on both dark, pseudo-gothic and light-excitement levels, rising almost to the level of Modest Mouse at their most anthemic with the opening and closing tracks. Great stuff.

Great album! Is both beautiful and compelling.

I disagree with Pitchfork a lot of the time (and at some point agree with their judgements) but here they are about as wrong as they can be. This album borrows a lot from tunes of the past; the melodies, the structures and perhaps some lyrical content (though on the most part there is some serious ingenuity here), but the feel of this album is absolutely unsurpassed by anything I have heard in a good while. There are truly passionate and amazingly written masterpieces here that send your mind over every edge of its boundary. I don't see this as a gentle album, I see it as one of a challenge to let go of your preconceived notion of convention and really let yourself fly loose in understanding this twisted world around you. Perhaps it's a bit much to garner from a few tunes, but this album does this to me. Songs 3-5 especially hold sway as absolute masterpieces and I hope that people realize this rather than just base judgement on others reviews. For some it may not cut past a few listens, but I can honestly say that within 1 week I'm on my 40th + listen and each one is an experience. Pick it up and give it a shot. At the very least you'll be rewarding a truly passionate act.… Expand

Man, I really don't know what you folks are listening to! This is a poorly recorded, half-baked, mess of an album. I loved Open Season...thought it was terrific, still do. I also liked the first album...DYLRM is so bad I can't even sit through it. drums sounds like pencils, loud distorted guitars howl away in the background as a meek ,way too close to the mic sounding voice bleeds through...the songs, most of them have no chorus whatsoever...Waving Flags is Ok, but it sounds like an Open Season outtake. Sorry guys...I'm jumping ship.… Expand

A classic, as much as their first album. I've had it i my Ipod since the release - listened through it 30-40 times and it still grows!

Undeniably, the first masterpiece of 2008. It'll be compared to Arcade Fire justifiably. It's no NEON BIBLE, but it's amazing nonetheless and the best album of their career.

Incredible.

I knew there was a reason I stopped reading Pitchfork on a regular basis years ago. Dismiss a great record like this with the most awful review I've read from a so called critic in years... all the while giving props and oodles of praise to trash like DeerHunter, Justin Timberlake and Of Montreal. Get f*cked!

Uh oh, Pitchfork gave it a bad review but overall it has a good score. Since pitchfork is infallible, hopefully the other publications with offer an apology.

Once again the two biggest haters (Pitchfork and PopMatters) talk trash about one of the best albums of the year. This album is practically flawless from start to finish. BSP expand upon their sound with dazzling results. Don't believe the hate.

The best album of 08, so far but...I have a feeling this album will still be my favorite at the end of the year. It's that good, trust me!