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Generally favorable reviews- based on 397 Ratings
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Positive: 247 out of 397
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Mixed: 53 out of 397
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Negative: 97 out of 397
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NatashaKMay 30, 2007An incredibly overrated album. I could understand appeal resting in the bland, sentimental accessibility
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SimonC.Oct 30, 2007This is literally the worst album I've ever heard, It is ridiculously repetitive it sounds like your computer froze while playing music and its playing the same thing over and over again. It might sound alright at times but I can';t see how any talent in this music. Maybe I just don't understand it but in my opinion it should defiantly not be #1 let alone the top 10
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ChristianKMay 16, 2007
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stemMay 10, 2007When these others say "minimal", take it to heart. It sucks.
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AaronS.May 28, 2007Overrated. It's really nothing special.
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BigSurMay 4, 2007Nothing that hasn't been done in a much more creative way before, even in mainstream music. To have this as the best rated record in 2007 implies the critics aren't mastering their craft. Listen to more music, guys!
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TonyE.Jul 4, 2007If this is the best electronic album of 2007, let alone best album of 2007, we are all in trouble musically. Repetitive junk.
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WTFJul 7, 2007wow this is seriously bad. I mean if I were in charge of this site I would be embarrased to have let such a mistake slip through.
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TomWAug 14, 2007If this is the best album of 2007 we should all pack up and go home. Electronic music has never sounded this dull.
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pix101Sep 3, 2007Must agree with what others have said, there is much better electronic music out there! I can't believe the hype for something so boring.
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KristNJan 3, 2008I'm in shock and awe over the scores at metacritic and here. This is not good music nor does it sound like the group put any real heart into it. I bet they are all looking at each other and wondering how they got voted 3rd best of 07. I'm sure they are getting a big laugh over it. Truly horrible. I mean every song has the exact same beat. It's rave music...that's it!!!
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BenjaminB.Mar 10, 2008I guess if your into this style of music you will enjoy it. I will give anything a chance and try to be as open minded as possible. With that being said this stuff is pretty weak, way over-rated, cause I wanted to hear what others are raving about but it wasn't there.
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GlenGOct 1, 2007
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YouS.Oct 26, 2007The Chemical Brothers make this record look like toddlers. I did make this shit when I bought FL studio back in 99 as an amateur. This is garbage.
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JoshB.Oct 5, 2007wtf is up with this? Sound like derivative, repetitive, boring electronica from 1997 to me.
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EvanMApr 15, 2007Repetitive. Minimal predictable beats that go exactly where you think theyre going.
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JSIlvaApr 18, 2007I really don't know why such a high note. Very repetitive, I cant see any fresh ideas, and by the 3rd track it starts to get really boring...(no, make it 2nd..)
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DanielAApr 27, 2007This is highly overrated.
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GiterdoneMay 16, 2007the score would place this album as being one of the greatest of all time....this site is officially broken and has lost all credibility.
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shootsybootsyMay 24, 2007"...oops I'm sorry I was looking for the music department."
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StephenEMay 28, 2007Why is this rated at the top of Meta Critic? Terrible.
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BrendanDMay 3, 2007
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MattD.May 9, 2007This is just goopy techno stuff. Big on sound effects but nothing else. It often amazes me what gets high and low ratings from critics. Just follow your own taste.
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emilywJun 26, 2007Finally this boring cd's rating is coming down a little bit. It still saddens me though that this has a 90 when stellar stuff like The National, Of Montreal, and Feist deserve to be the top three albums of the year thus far. Boo to boring electronica that goes absolutely nowhere. Give me a laptop and while put out something at least ten times as interesting as this tripe.
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AlfR.Jul 10, 2007It's never better than ok and frankly, most of the time it's a snooze. As an EP, it might've worked but the lack of ideas or even a different tempo make this pretty damn soporific.
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ChrisHJul 21, 2007One of the worst albums I ever heard - it would be annoying if it was not so endlessly boring.
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StephenUJul 25, 2007
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RichieHJul 4, 2007Absolute rubbish. Those rating this album highly have been spoon-fed an opinion. Fucking conformists.
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JodieLJul 6, 2007
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SteveRAug 18, 2007He, you reader, you've got only one single life; don't waste your time by listening to this music. He, you metacritic, I demand more professional reviews to decrease the high score this album really doesn't deserve.
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RobSAug 20, 2007This album has inspired me to create my own electronic music.
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MusicfanSep 17, 2007This album, I believe, is good for what it is - an electronic album strictly for electronic fans. It has zero value for most of the other people.
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PaulCSep 25, 2007Vastly overrated, every album in the top ten is better than this one, and I've listened to them all.
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PeterB.Mar 11, 2008Absolute rubbish. I bought this blindly from the reviews and it's god-awful. Maybe mildly decent if you're on E, but strictly on it's on the music is worthless.
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BlabBlabJul 30, 2008terribly boring. best album of the year? jesus, by the end of track 1 you've heard the entire album 4 times. dull
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chrissOct 14, 2007There was nothing really ground breaking about this album. Just became extremely repetitive.
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SemolinaP.Oct 6, 2007
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BjorkReznorApr 15, 2007This album is horrible, and the fact that it's #1 for 2007 is clearly nothing more than an embarrassing pitfall of Metacritic's aggregation system. With a larger sample size, the ratings would plummet.
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EricApr 18, 2007
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KyleMay 1, 2007Is this a massive april fool's joke? I was unfortunate enough to buy this steaming turd of an album based on the metacritic score and can't believe my ears. How could this be the best reviewed album of 2007? I would rather be punched in the face for an hour than listen to this thing again.
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PaulWMay 15, 2007Absolutely nowhere near as good as the ratings, really VERY dull.
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MikeMMay 19, 2007BORING!!!!!
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DivagazioniNMay 22, 2007Un disco inascoltabile, ripetitivo in tutte le sue tracce troppo elettroniche
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simsimMay 27, 2007eh!? another overated album. metacritic really fails bringging the good stuff over the bad stuff. its basically some dance music overlooped with some cheesy baselines and a flat atmospheric part. Someone who thinks any good of this album should make an ear over good ambient stuff , look at bluemars, sky fm, groove salad, youll hear tons of better stuff for free over internet radio.
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HexumSMay 6, 2007
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DaveMMay 8, 2007
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PrometheusFJun 17, 2007
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maxwJun 22, 2007i don't understandt very horrible album i like only one song (the second)
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tokyopimpJun 23, 2007
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BenJ.Jun 27, 2007I've listened to this album at a friend's request. It is awful. There is very little on this that I find worthy of being considered music.
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PamPhletJun 3, 2007What a steaming pile of dump.
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JosephJul 18, 2007This is not a dance album like Justice. This is not a trance album. This album is not meant to revolutionize electronic music. This one is about sentimentality, vague vision, minimalism and shoddy production. Forget the high metacritic score and the ranting users, hang out on the beach sober and completely ignoring it.
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TedMJul 23, 2007I played this album, got through about 3 tracks and had to stop it. It is just boring and completely overrated. Can't believe this is metacritics best album of the year! Serious loss of credibility for the site. But I guess that can mainly be blamed on the journalists who raved about this pile of mediocre cr@p.
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BradNJul 26, 2007This is not
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MDunnJul 3, 2007Take a thump from New Order and a wash from Giorgio Moroder. This is crap.
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charleye.Aug 9, 2007Why do most critically acclaimed albums fall on deaf ears? Because they are horrible, emotionless, and empty - like reviewers. I can't stand this album. It's dull, dull, dull. It's absolutely depressing that people could like this.
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NiklasSep 15, 2007wtf? How can it be so high rated when it sucks this much!...it sounds like something went wrong in my computer now like music (but perhaps it's just me, who doesn't know anything about techno?)
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SamS.Sep 21, 2007Garbage!
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JenSep 20, 2007What a waste of a really awesome title.
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TwelveVoltsSep 20, 2007Truly horrible.
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ToxtethO.Sep 24, 2007I dearly hope that something comes out that knocks this out of the top spot. This album was unlistenable to me.
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MarkD.Apr 11, 2008Easily the most over-rated album of 2007. I listened to this album repeatedly trying to give it a chance. I guess I just don't get the house phenomenon. If you are not a fan of this style of music don't even attempt to appreciate this album.
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STeveOct 14, 2007I'm a big fan of electronic music of all kinds, but this really isn't a very good album. I agree with the previous poster's point that all the other albums in the top ten are better than this one. How can you compare this tripe to Radiohead's "In Rainbows", for example? Insulting.
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JakeD.Oct 15, 2007I'm still thinking this is a huge critical joke. Interesting concept, horrible payoff.
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NiallSDec 17, 2007Maybe it's a Grower but I've listened to this album 3-4 times and can't see what I'm supposed to see in it.
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mikeyfApr 13, 2007reedy & callow.
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DaveApr 21, 2007You people are lemmings, this muisc is so boring, think for yourselves
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GrahamWApr 22, 2007No idea why this is getting such rave reviews, agree with Evan, it is extremely repetitive, sounds like a cd skipping. Certainly not a 95.
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SantiagoSMay 16, 2007I can´t believe that a simple album like this has this rating!!!
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KyleRJun 26, 2007Tokyopimp. You have vocalized my opinion in a way my own mind could not.
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LiamAJul 31, 2007To all you indie scene hipster hacks who are influenced by Pitchfork, don
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whatadickAug 29, 2007
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CharlieJan 25, 2008Being simple is fine, but being redundant is another thing. The thing is, there are so many better trance charts out there with much more to offer.
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Awards & Rankings
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If you like minimal electronic music at all, you must seek it out.
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This is one of those rare albums that makes you wonder how you ever got by without it.
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This is an album you could easily hate -- especially if you like things like change and development.