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Menos el Oso - Minus The Bear
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74 out of 100

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8.9 out of 10

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  • Summary: The Seattle band returns with a fourth album.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Alternative Press
    100
    There's a constant sense of forward motion to Menos El Oso that suits the whole metaphor of growing up and growing out. [Oct 2005, p.156]
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  2. Prefix Magazine
    60
    What's really preventing Minus the Bear from making a breakthrough with El Oso is the band's unwillingness to head in new directions.
  3. Tiny Mix Tapes
    30
    Menos el Oso takes the act of melodizing the banal to dizzyingly silly new heights.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. AlexanderM
    10
    Breath taking... Saw them play this album live and it was remarkable. The guitarist really knows what hes doing as he creates these beats.
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  2. amanda
    10
    melodic mesmerizing harmonic vocals mixed with insanly sporadic rifts=minus the bears-menos el oso
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  3. BrandonC
    10
    One of the greatest CD's I've listened to in a long time. Simply AMAZING!!!
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