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Music For The People - The Enemy
Metascore
55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 3 out of 12
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  1. Mojo
    80
    Music For The People is a record that brims with weighty ambition. [April 2009]
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  2. Observer Music Monthly
    80
    That's the problem with social realism, but the Enemy do their best to vary their sound and mode of address.
  3. Hot Press
    70
    Widescreen return from Jam wannabes.
  4. Uncut
    60
    The Enemy's trademark enormity--not to mention their rampant tunefulness--lifts this out of the ladrock morass. [Jul 2009, p.86]
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  5. Q Magazine
    60
    Ambitious and heartfelt, Music For The People is the sound of a band caught between rock and a hard place. [May 2009, p.111]
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  6. The Guardian
    60
    There's no escaping the fact that a good chunk of Music for the People trundles along facelessly, unredeemed even by singer Tom Clarke's dedication to the cause.
  7. New Musical Express (NME)
    50
    The Enemyıs second is weighed down with pomp and bluster.
  8. Spin
    40
    While there are still a couple of Jam-like snarlers on album two, the aping of Oasis' more bloated days sinks things quickly.
  9. PopMatters
    40
    As ponderous as Music for the People can be, it does have some forward momentum, and it's an undeniable improvement over "We'll Live and Die in These Towns."
  10. Dot Music
    20
    The truth is most of this new record is karaoke, too--it's just that, like their fans, the band are so desperate to mean something that they have the gall to call it 'new'.
  11. Drowned In Sound
    20
    Despite the so-called grandiose statements of intent such as strings, pianos and soul-trained female backing vocalists, this is simply a case of mutton dressed as lamb and those lambs eventually being slaughtered.
  12. musicOMH.com
    20
    Clarke is a genuinely talented songwriter, if rather earnest in his intentions, but in Music for The People he and his mates seem to have lost the plot.
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