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74 out of 100

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8.0 out of 10

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  • Summary: Experience has only made their work richer, bringing gravity to the subject matter and lightness to the sound of this new album. Keeping things honest--and often rapturous--has become a modus operandi.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. The A.V. Club
    83
    It's the best sort of covers album, reverent to the source material but not beholden to it.
  2. Drowned In Sound
    80
    This is how the covers album should be done, with tight technique and loving affection blending together to give the new versions life and bite.
  3. Mojo
    60
    A titular palindrome for New Yorkers' covers CD. [June 2010, p. 96]
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  1. KundK
    5
    If I had a hi-fi, I would listen to the originals, Nada Surf's and everybody else's. When Tori Amos covers Slayer, makes "Raining Blood" her own and manages to be far more disturbing than the original - I see the point of the cover and tip my hat. When Nada Surf covers Spoon... I refuse to participate.… Expand
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