Kids in the Street
- The All-American Rejects
- Band Name: The All-American Rejects
- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Mar 26, 2012
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Apr 13, 201280Their richest and most varied album to date.
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Mar 27, 201280In all, it's easily their most ambitious--and praiseworthy--effort to date. [Apr 2012, p.92]
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Mar 27, 201280If Move Along got the name in lights, it's Kids in the Street that ensures The All-American Rejects to be burning bright for years to come.
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Mar 27, 201275Too many tracks here are cloaked in unnecessary hoopla, suffocating the best songs' breezy sweetness.
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Apr 4, 201270Producer Greg Wells (Katy Perry, OneRepublic, Adele) dresses all that [emotional complexity and angst] up with greater sonic sophistication, guiding the All-American Rejects toward a more bombastic brand of pop.
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Mar 30, 201260Ultimately Kids in the Street will go down as a solid album that is an ambitious and interesting grower... Nothing more, nothing less.
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Mar 27, 201260Thankfully, [Tyson Ritter's] band shows signs of cracking through its own arrested development, especially in the sinuous groove of "Bleed Into Your Mind" and the sweetly vulnerable orchestral ballad "Affection."
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Apr 3, 201250Their most subdued effort yet.
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Apr 11, 201240The Rejects' return features too many reheated elements of their older sound, and often disastrous deviations when they stray from it.
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Mar 30, 201220Kids in the Street is uninspired, '80s-laced material.