In Our Gun
by Gomez
  • Record Label: Virgin
  • Release Date: Apr 23, 2002
Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. Mojo
    80
    The aural palette is as wide as ever... but in the service of songs that might be sung on the morning train, under stars on a moonless night or even in the bath. [Apr 2002, p.116]
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  2. PopMatters
    100
    Screw Wilco; In Our Gun is sounding very much like the Album of the Year.
  3. Rolling Stone
    70
    The five-piece British band has mastered the art of the recording studio, and this self-produced effort boasts the breathless enthusiasm of someone who's finally learned a difficult craft.
  5. The A.V. Club
    80
    In Our Gun fulfills the group's early promise, integrating touches of Radiohead-style avant-garde atmospherics into a set of songs that are on the whole shorter, looser, and punchier than any of its predecessors.
  6. Nude As The News
    65
    It's an okay album, not nearly as overproduced as Liquid Skin nor as unnecessary as Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline. It isn't anywhere near the stellar debut, though, which is quickly becoming a tag Gomez is sick of hearing.
  7. Ink Blot Magazine
    100
    Buy this album and hold it dear, because you won't hear a better one any time soon.
  8. AllMusic
    80
    In Our Gun has all the elements that made their debut so great, and then some.
  9. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    Gomez's three-vocalist acoustic vamps [are] now festooned with gadgetry. [3 May 2002, p.88]
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  10. Dot Music
    80
    Gomez continue to make powerfully relevant music.
  11. New Musical Express (NME)
    70
    A little more emotional chaos, a dash of the dark stuff, might make such avuncular campfire grooves more worthy of our time and money.
  12. E! Online
    83
    The end result is creative, inspired and, most important, individual.
  13. Magnet
    80
    The 13-song set gurgles and gloops with the surreal intensity of a Morricone score revisted by a Bollywood auteur/mixmaster. [#54, p.91]
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#66 Most Shared Album of 2002

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User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. AshB
    Apr 6, 2006
    10
    Gomez at their second best. gomez decide to go all techno alternative in this album with hints of their old school class in songs like Shot Gomez at their second best. gomez decide to go all techno alternative in this album with hints of their old school class in songs like Shot Shot and Ballad Of Nice & Easy… Full Review »
  2. RobPep
    Mar 20, 2006
    10
    Great album that remains exciting probably because of 3 fantastic vocal performances keeping in fresh. superb album!
  3. JohnF.
    May 8, 2002
    5
    Gomez once appeared to have something interesting going on, but it's been a long time and they've gotten nowhere. Forgetable.
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