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65 out of 100

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7.3 out of 10

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  • Summary: Michael Stipe and VW (The Kills) guest on the UK band's first album in three years.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Dot Music
    90
    As sleek and assured as anything the trio have done.
  2. musicOMH.com
    90
    Darker than its predecessors, the harrowing Meds is as close Placebo have come to that perfect album.
  3. Mojo
    60
    A third of these songs can rightly be claimed as classic Placebo pop. [Apr 2006, p.106]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 39
  3. Negative: 7 out of 39
  1. Durandall
    10
    Very good lyrics and songs, all f their Albums are great but this one is the best. Basically all are good songs except one of a kinds that its just ok.… Expand
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  2. Hein
    5
    Just boring and not important. Buy "Black Market Music" instead "Meds".
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  3. logans
    2
    Have placebo given up entirely? There hasn't been a whole lot of variety when it comes to their music but at least in the previous albums they sounded they were trying to experiment and evolve. With this album, it sounds like they decided to give up on that and write nothing but simple, catchy pop songs that make it easy for DJs to remix for nightclubs. Too easy in fact. This is Placebo at their most formulaic and predictable. When you can guess the tempo changes during and between songs, and often the lyrics a couple lines ahead, it is clear they are merely going through the motions. I want to know when they are going to put out a "boy band" video in the vein of the Backstreet Boys. That is all they really are now, a boy band, albeit a dark, broody one at that.… Expand
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