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

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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. 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.
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  2. The A.V. Club
    70
    Sounds a lot like a stately, plump version of The Rock*A*Teens.
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  3. AllMusic
    90
    Knitting Needles & Bicycle Bells is the 2005 American indie rock equivalent of the kind of records the Kinks were making in the Village Green era: parochial, intimate, painfully literate, and pretty close to brilliant.
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