Last Exit - Junior Boys
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Metascore
89 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 23 Critics What's this?

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8.3 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 43 Ratings

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  • Summary: This is the first full-length release from the hard-to-pin down Canadian synth-pop trio led by Jeremy Greenspan.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Uncut
    100
    It's hard to believe there will be a better record than Last Exit released this year. [Jul 2004, p.102]
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  2. Spin
    91
    They do it better [than the Postal Service]--catchier songs, chillier production and more sophisticated beats. [Nov 2004, p.118]
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  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    90
    It's thrillingly obvious that Junior Boys have made one of the year's best albums. [31 Jul 2004, p.41]
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  4. Urb
    80
    But wait, you say you're sick of disingenuous irony? Well so are we, which is why Junior Boys is such an astounding relief, boarding on rapturous in their melancholy. [Jul/Aug 2004, p.125]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 34
  3. Negative: 5 out of 34
  1. BobbyK.
    10
    Fantastic. Minimal, electronic with depth and emotion.
  2. Dr.Incognito
    8
    I've only listened to it a few times, but it's definitely a slice of unique and tasty synth-pop -- in places a bit like an electroclash update of the Blue Nile. One quibble -- the vocals are mixed too low for my tastes on several tracks. Or maybe I'm just going deaf?… Expand
  3. jacobm
    7
    Alltogether it is good music
  4. BenC
    3
    just really, really really dull - can't understand why it got such good reviews when there is so much more interesting (electronic) music out there.… Expand

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