Knitting Needles And Bicycle Bells
by Tenement Halls
  • Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Aug 23, 2005
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    60
    Poppy and breezy to the point of being nauseating.
  2. No Ripcord
    60
    It sounds like good musicians doing a rush job, kind of like Blood on the Tracks without the spellbinding genius.
  3. PopMatters
    60
    It can grate at times and it's way too ordinary an album for that to be a sign of substance or complexity.
  5. Pitchfork
    53
    Where the Rock*A*Teens played an artful, echo-laden take on rockabilly, Tenement Halls takes traditional pop and plays it through a murky wall of sound.
  6. Under The Radar
    40
    While this music may get heads bobbing live, it comes off flat on disc. [#11, p.116]
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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
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  1. ReggieD
    Sep 18, 2005
    8
    What this album does is sink: and what is sinking is teeth into the grindstone. Where ABBA and their followers have failed, they pick up and What this album does is sink: and what is sinking is teeth into the grindstone. Where ABBA and their followers have failed, they pick up and drop the tiniest nuances fit to squirm their way into the middle of the world. Wrecked? Yeah, maybe their equipment, but when an album comes along that can shake the very hound you sleep on, you dont look away twice. Everybody will cry when they die.… Full Review »
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