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91There isn't a tune on No Cities Left, the Dears' gorgeous second album, that's not pitched at a minor state of emergency. [Jan 2005, p.99]
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90This is an album on which EVERYTHING ace you can think of in indie happens.
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90A drizzly doomsday masterpiece. [Nov 2004, p.108]
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Sad music has never sounded so uplifting.
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86An astoundingly complex, deeply evocative pop record. [#13, p.98]
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Sound[s] like Marvin Gaye fronting The Smiths while the London Philharmonic Orchestra has a stab at the Burt Bacharach songbook. [9 Oct 2004, p.55]
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80This is seriously literate stuff, and all the better for it. [Nov 2004, p.120]
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At its best sounds like a suicidal combination of Blur and the Divine Comedy.
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80An album that shimmers in unexpected places, is never predictable, and should set the Dears up to be major contenders in 2005.
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There’s a bit too much flab on No Cities Left for it to be the truly great album it aspires to be.
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70Can be summed up succinctly: Damon Albarn sings The Smiths. [Nov 2004, p.130]
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[An] intense and epic album.
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70A curious amalgamation of styles that is ultimately quirky and compelling.
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70No Cities Left is a very good album, just not quite the timeless classic some would lead you to believe.
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68The Dears, by and large, make tracks that would slide without much distinction onto any number of mid-90s albums, neither gumming up the works nor sounding particularly special.
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It is true, this album does have songs and nearly all of them suffer the same fate: a few great ideas ruined by the need for everything to be so overblown and melodramatic.
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60Neither for the faint of heart, nor for those allergic to pretentiousness. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.103]
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There's a strange, almost perfectly equatorial divide between five largely stunning songs, and six that might shine brighter in lesser company. As arranged, it's jarringly half-brilliant and half-blah.
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DennyC8Lost in the plot & we can have it God damn brilliants songs
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TomJ10amazing