Emergency
by The Pigeon Detectives
User Score
7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16

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  1. MikeW.
    Jul 14, 2008
    6
    Pales in comparison to the first album, which is not to say it isn't a good album, it just isn't as big as an accomplishment of an album, my recommendation is for the band to spend more than a year on the next album, and we'll be treated with another album more along the lines of Wait For Me.

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Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Dot Music
    60
    Emergency isn't quite the great leap that was expected but does at least carry a few optimistic signs for the future.
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  2. Mojo
    60
    Those Libertines comparisons are a distant memory on Emergency, an album that ditches any tentativeness felt on last year's "Wait For Me," the band and producer Stephen Street going for Yorkshire-patented, Kaiser Chief-sized choruses, and Arctic Monkeys' kitchen-sink philosophising in the verses. [June 2008, p.102]
  3. Q Magazine
    80
    Emergency is a confident second dose, not a lazy repeat. [June 2008, p.139]
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