Monsoon
by Preston School Of Industry
  • Record Label: Matador
  • Release Date: Feb 17, 2004
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  1. BrianJ
    Mar 17, 2004
    6
    Monsoon is a rehash of their first album, All This Sounds Gas and that's not a bad thing either. Half the songs on here are good and the other half are just ok. The first four songs are great. Spiral has improved as a songwriter, but the weak songs drag out this album. Overall, you know that he can do better.

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62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. Playlouder
    70
    It's a pleasant listen, with twice the beauty of its predecessor 'All This Sounds Gas', but while the songs are easy to appreciate, they are difficult to love.
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  2. Alternative Press
    80
    A batch of lazy mid-afternoon pop songs that only sound better when his friends from Wilco show up to sing along. [Apr 2004, p.86]
  3. AllMusic
    60
    The glimmers of vitality lurking around the edges of the album tend to make it all the more frustrating -- just a few more distinctive songs would've gone a long way towards making this a really solid album instead of just an intermittently entertaining one.
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