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Last Day of Summer Image
Metascore
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: The 12-song collection from prior recording sessions was originally released digitally in 2010.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Dec 9, 2011
    80
    Last Days Of Summer marks the point where White Denim left behind their schizophrenia and started speaking in one voice.
  2. Uncut
    Dec 12, 2011
    80
    Last Day Of Summer is as good as anything White Denim have ever done. [Jan 2011, p.80]
  3. Mojo
    Jun 27, 2012
    80
    Last Day Of Summer confirms that White Denim have a broad understanding of music as a whole... Their ability to synthesise this knowledge makes them one of the most thrilling forces in rock music right now. [Jan 2012, p.96]
  4. Dec 7, 2011
    74
    What makes Last Day of Summer engaging has as much to do with White Denim's potential future as it does its roots.
  5. Dec 7, 2011
    73
    Despite the inessential nature of some songs, and perhaps the inessential nature of the album as a whole, for sympathetic ears it serves as a kind of skeleton key to White Denim's bewildering powers, as much as any collection of demos or rehersal tapes.
  6. Dec 7, 2011
    60
    Last Day of Summer is surely weirder than their actual album material, but it's compelling to watch a band rooted in garage rock go so far out of its comfort zone, try some uncharted styles (jazz, prog, tropicalia, and psych-folk), and still come up with some winners.
  7. Q Magazine
    Dec 22, 2011
    60
    [It has] abundant warmth, melodiousness and spontaneity--and fewer full-tilt stylistic shifts than earlier records. [Jan 2012, p.127]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1