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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
8.9

Universal acclaim- based on 38 Ratings

  • Summary: One-hit wonders, you say? Well, the New York trio did score an MTV hit with "Popular," from their 1996 debut album, but it is a more mature and less commercial Nada Surf that returns now with a third LP, their first for indie label Barsuk.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. A dozen near-perfect pop songs, each one teeming with joyful desperation.
  2. Layer after layer of preconceived notions and excess noise are stripped away to unveil both soft-spoken charm and intense newfound confidence.
  3. Magnet
    90
    A near-perfect record to hold onto with all the might you can muster. [#58, p.103]
  4. Let Go is an excellent rainy-afternoon album, full of gentle and melancholic beauty, with echoes of Love and the Beach Boys.
  5. Q Magazine
    80
    A more mature mix of intelligent guitar tunes and acoustic noodling. [Oct 2002, p.113]
  6. Mojo
    80
    Wheel reinvention, it ain't, but for insidious, emotionally overblown ear candy, Let Go hits a real sweet spot. [Nov 2002, p.113]
  7. This record is Weezer-lite, emo-lite, corporate radio, MOR rock junk.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. ebokw
    Oct 31, 2004
    10
    what a beautiful album. blonde on blonde is my favorite song, but barely. rob mitchum from pitchfork is a complete moron, look up his other what a beautiful album. blonde on blonde is my favorite song, but barely. rob mitchum from pitchfork is a complete moron, look up his other reviews for more proof. Stylus is trying too hard to be pitchfork. Expand
  2. a_1
    Dec 9, 2010
    10
    "Well son", I said. This is my favourite album of all time"...
  3. DaveF
    Jul 28, 2005
    10
    One of my favorite records. I've been spinning it off and on for nearly two years, and its sweet exuberance hasn't worn thin yet. One of my favorite records. I've been spinning it off and on for nearly two years, and its sweet exuberance hasn't worn thin yet. Buy it, treasure it, tell your friends Expand
  4. butchbob
    Feb 16, 2006
    10
    this album has done it for me. it never has let me down. i can just let go.
  5. CJD.
    Feb 2, 2008
    10
    Rob Mitchem, what a friggin DB. Does he even write for PF anymore?
  6. MikeF
    Feb 8, 2008
    9
    Beautiful record. Pitchfork can suck a dick for all I care.
  7. ColeN
    Jul 18, 2004
    8
    Poop, but wonderfully entertaining poop. Listening is enjoyable, and even fun!!!

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