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- Summary: The ever-prolific Robert Pollard returns with a brand-new GbV studio disc (the 15th or so since 1987), retaining the core group of musicians that has been with him for the last few albums.
- Record Label: Matador
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 20
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Mixed: 6 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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Their best album since 1996's brilliant Under the Bushes, Under the Stars.
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This is what makes Earthquake Glue such a startling arrival. You dont simply listen to it out of obligation, but instead because you are compelled to return to it, again and again.
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MagnetAside from a few fleeting moments of watery prog and lumpen rock, the album's 15 songs have a slow-growing charm and understated grace, something that gradually becomes powerful in its own right. [#60, p.102]
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Steeped in big rock history, steadfastly tenacious, perversely, refreshingly uncool, Bob Pollard has written a fine collection of songs, for the most part, and his band, in their execution, have matched him every step of the way.
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Alternative PressThe songs are getting samey. [Sep 2003, p.102]
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UncutStrange, though, that we yearned for Pollard to treat his songs properly when he tossed them off as lo-fi sketches, but now they arrive as crafted, completed stadium anthems, that faint whiff of underachievement remains. [Sep 2003, p.102]
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FilterThe best song is track 13, "Apology in Advance." It is still not that good. [#6, p.86]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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belletMar 13, 2004great
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SteveBAug 28, 2003great album
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AllergicReactionSep 26, 2003Fantastic. Just below the stuff from Propeller through Mag Earwig, but still a 10. Great stuff.
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BrianM.Aug 30, 2003
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Apr 6, 2018
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[Anonymous]Aug 19, 2003
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Nov 18, 2012
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