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7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 18
  2. Negative: 2 out of 18

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Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 31
  2. Negative: 1 out of 31
  1. 80
    For Living Thing, they ditch the comfortable confines of the airy, featherweight pop they perfected on Writer’s Block for more sonically adventurous territory and prove in the process that their prior success was not just a fluke.
  2. Mojo
    60
    A surfeit of wilfully sibilant '80s keyboard sounds notwithstanding, there's little to dislike. [May 2009, p.103]
  3. Q Magazine
    60
    Living Thing, equally lovely and contrary, is somewhere between the two [albums, "Young Folks" and "Seaside Rock"]. [May 2009, p.116]