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70

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  • Summary: The second full-length release from the San Francisco pop punk trio was self-recorded and mixed by Monte Vallier.
  • Record Label: Slumberland
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Garage Punk, Noise Pop, Punk-Pop
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Sep 13, 2013
    80
    The minor tunings work and, as a result, Nobody Realizes gives Terry Malts the added depth some may have felt was missing.
  2. Sep 13, 2013
    70
    Burying emotional depth and even sensitivity beneath healthily sarcastic sounds, alienated lyrics, and cheeky titles like "Comfortably Dumb," Terry Malts have made an unassumingly sophisticated album.
  3. Sep 17, 2013
    70
    An album that joins the innumerable ranks of successful low-aiming punk records from the past thirty years that chronicle boring suburban life and that light-bulb moment when you realize that what you buy isn’t who you are. Except, of course, when you, person of impeccable taste, buy this album.
  4. Magnet
    Oct 18, 2013
    70
    The pummeling drums and gnarly guitar may sound hardcore on first listen, but they're augmented by bright pop touches that make the bitter sentiments expressed in the lyrics easy to swallow. [No. 103, p.61]
  5. Sep 13, 2013
    62
    Singer Phil Benson still croons in a tone much like that of Morrissey or Robert Smith, and the guitars still crunch through each urgent track, but we’ve heard it all before, and rowdy, noisy punk songs lose their luster quickly.
  6. Sep 13, 2013
    61
    After a while, Nobody--frenetic but faceless, too nonchalant for true nonconformity--starts to blur together.