Everything Is - Nine Black Alps
User Score
9.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 20 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20

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  1. dipp0
    Oct 10, 2005
    10
    Best album of the year. I got a hell of a kick first time I heard it... and oh, it gets better.
  2. willb
    Aug 24, 2005
    10
    its awesome
  3. carlosa
    Sep 20, 2005
    10
    I think this is an album with brilliant production and alot of energy. This one of the most constant albums ive heard in 5 years. I would say it will be hard for any band to better it before the end of the year. It combines Punk Grunge Garage and Rock very well. INTERMISSION is simiply beautiful.
  4. RuviW
    Jan 6, 2006
    10
    Great Album. Lot of raugh energy. Melodics. Everything.
  5. Cesar
    Jul 9, 2005
    10
    Shot Down is the best song of the year!
  6. Alex
    Feb 28, 2006
    9
    class as! yes, it smacks of Nirvana.... but since when was that a bad thing? eh? eh?
  7. GarrettS
    Mar 1, 2006
    9
    This gets mixed reviews, yet people drool over overhyped cliche stuff like arctic monkeys. Wow. This is just good ol' rock and roll, lots of energy and melody. Anyone who enjoys any form of rock music can enjoy this.
  8. AdrianM
    Mar 28, 2006
    10
    This is the best record I have heard since the YYY's Fever to Tell. Its raw, loud and lryically interesting. It nice to hear somtning diffrent than all the crap Emo Punk coming from the US and the melancholy whine of current Brit Pop
  9. Kurt
    Jan 22, 2006
    10
    pure out n out rock music at its very best. even the quieter tracks are surprisingly great.
Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 20
  2. Negative: 2 out of 20
  1. Their dark yet energetic, garage pop - all needling, pivot-on-a-penny riffs, eruptive noise and high tensile dynamics - borrows from Buzzcocks, Pixies and Nirvana/Foo Fighters but, for all its tautness and intensity, there's little on Nine Black Alps' debut LP likely to change the world.
  2. NBA's sole but major problem is that so many of these songs - 'Unsatisfied', 'Shot Down', 'Ironside', the list goes on - lack anything like major soul.
  3. 70
    Rocks and then rocks harder, launching wave after wave of vicious punk hooks. [Jul 2005, p.106]