Outta Sight / Outta Mind - The Datsuns
Metascore
47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 3 out of 14
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  1. Stylus Magazine
    80
    Outta Sight/Outta Mind is not an album that you can discuss in measured tones whilst tending to your beard. It is an album that will only cause mass hysteria and blood clots and burst forth Kundalini from the base of your spine like some auto-massage chair plugged into the wrong transformer while you holler “wheeeeaaauurgh!!” and finally slump down into a wet pile of exhaustion.
  2. Uncut
    70
    A less full-tilt affair than their first effort... but no less fun. [Jul 2004, p.95]
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  3. Blender
    70
    They are still greasy rock & rollers who know how to keep a party going. [Oct 2004, p.120]
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  4. Amazon.com
    70
    A denim-clad, riff-heavy beast of a rock album. [Amazon UK]
  5. Q Magazine
    60
    Halfway through... it becomes a directionless mess. [Jul 2004, p.113]
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  6. New Musical Express (NME)
    40
    Their preoccupation with '70s British metal finds them wandering dangerously into gobilin-and-ghouls prog-rock territory. [5 Jun 2004, p.54]
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  7. Pitchfork
    40
    Their caveman take on 70s nostalgia-- simultaneously misguided and entirely too obvious-- renders them mostly forgettable and entirely ineffectual.
  8. All Music Guide
    40
    They seem like a garden-variety hard rock band, one that would have been generic and forgettable in 1974, and one that is generic and forgettable in 2004.
  9. Alternative Press
    40
    Amount[s] to little more than a facsimile of their forefathers. [Nov 2004, p.149]
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  10. The Guardian
    40
    Much of the time they sound like a 1973 youth club rock band.
  11. PopMatters
    40
    Part of me likes that the Datsuns are 100% serious about doing their own thing, regardless of what the scene demands, but when their "thing" amounts to a heap of riffs leftover from the Carter administration, I can't get that excited.
  12. Dot Music
    30
    For people awaiting that second Jet album, this should prove a welcome distraction from their crayons. For the rest of us it's a look of bemusement and a scratched head.
  13. Splendid
    30
    As recently as last year it looked like The Datsuns might be next in line to make arena-sized, super-popular rock the way Zeppelin, AC/DC and G'n'R did. They still might, but it's going to take better songs than these.
  14. Spin
    25
    [The Datsuns] now sound unfit to carry the Donnas' jockstraps. [Oct 2004, p.120]
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User Score
8.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. MikeV.
    10
    i don't understand why the datsuns get ratings like 40% if you would know anything about music you would understand that this band is all about rockn' roll coming back to life!! rockn' roll isn't dead!! look at franz ferdinand they are dead! have you ever listened to their second album? I doubt it if i read your comment! but yeah i know everybody likes something else but the datsuns deserve better and should be appreciated more!!… Full Review »
  2. liamP-M
    10
    The Datsuns are a band who came too late. If this album had been released in the 90's, the Datsuns would've been HUGE! This album is brilliant messy rock, but people don't want that anymore, and while that's sad, all it should mean is that the people who hate rock shouldn't review it.… Full Review »
  3. MoT
    10
    Agree with Andrew R. Loved the first album and this one just as much.
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