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Live Music
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  • Summary: Jim Eno of Spoon produced the third album for the Austin, Texas rock group.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Uncut
    Nov 11, 2011
    80
    The Strange Boys have added some muscle to the general mix. [Dec 2011, p.83]
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  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    Oct 28, 2011
    80
    If The Strange Boys were Brits, you get the impression they'd officially be a big deal by now.
  3. BBC Music
    Oct 31, 2011
    80
    So far, so chin-strokingly barroom--but then things take a turn for the interesting and Live Music becomes a more-frills-than-you-might-imagine, no filler delight.
  4. Filter
    Nov 3, 2011
    62
    Live Music regresses into stylistic confusion, but the gems are worth the wait.
  5. Pitchfork
    Dec 9, 2011
    62
    As Sambol unravels that theme across these 14 songs, the album grows more endearing, if never quite exciting.
  6. Mojo
    Jan 19, 2012
    60
    A warm twangy sound, evocative of Southern, sun-paralysed afternoons. [Dec 2011, p. 100]
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  7. Austin Chronicle
    Oct 28, 2011
    50
    Live Music opens with the roguish piano line of "Me and You" that simultaneously pops like a spark and settles lazily into Ryan Sambol's moaning vocals, setting up the freewheeling aura that permeates the A-side.

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