Join Us
by They Might Be Giants
  • Record Label: Rounder
  • Release Date: Jul 19, 2011
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 15 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
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  1. MooziikMaster
    Jul 26, 2011
    6
    Meh. Just another attempt to make real music. This was a pretty boring album overall. With way too many songs (who has 18 songs on an album nowadays?!) and the same sound for every song, you can skip this album... it's not going to make any "best of the year" lists.

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Q Magazine
    Aug 16, 2011
    40
    The trouble is, for all its inventive wordplay and expert pastiches, Join Us swiftly becomes the musical equivalent of that witty, but rather-too-clever male party guest who always ends up going home alone. [Sept. 2011, p. 119]
  2. The Boston Phoenix
    Aug 3, 2011
    75
    Cautiously, I submit that Join Us, their 15th album and first non-children's release in four years, has that old-school TMBG feel, as if the Unlikely Rock Band ditched the self-conscious weirdo-geek shtick for a more genuine weirdo-geek non-shtick shtick.
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  3. CMJ
    Jul 29, 2011
    70
    The band's latest album, Join Us, expresses the group's signature nerd pride with a combination of simplicity and fantasy fit for ex-losers, children and those weird kids in high school.
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