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Person To Person - Foreign Born
Metascore
71 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. No Ripcord
    90
    It's dark and joyous at the same time, fun and epic sounding enough to seem meaningful, despite my inability to make out most of the lyrics.
  2. Tiny Mix Tapes
    80
    The lyrics here are sparse and, as with most of the album, indiscernible. It's rare that a rock album could be so enjoyable without a great presence of the English language, but Person to Person certainly is.
  3. Pitchfork
    79
    You can tell that these songs were shaped and sculpted and polished ten times over, the attention to detail and space a welcome step away from the often sloppy clumps of no-fi ruckus clattering up from garages and out of bedrooms everywhere right about now.
  4. New Musical Express (NME)
    70
    Singer Matt Popieluch transcends his past as Peter Bjorn And John's bongo player as he helms the hyper-melodic 'Vacationing People', while 'Wait in This Chair' proves a moving ode to inertia, casting a spell only a televised fashion disaster could break.
  5. Drowned In Sound
    70
    Foreign Born feel like they should have more staying power, even if there's less flash.
  6. Rolling Stone
    70
    A charming indie-pop ode to the rootlessness of the permanently hot-tubbed.
  7. Filter
    66
    This isn't a necessarily better brand of Foreign Born shoegaze, but it is far shiner and more decidely American made. [Summer 2009, p.96]
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  8. Under The Radar
    60
    There is a frustrating, anticipatory quality to Person To Person: always promising, but often dropping you off short of ecstasy. [Summer 2009, p.65]
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  9. All Music Guide
    60
    Person to Person is a pleasant enough listen rather than a gripping one, somewhere between enjoyable inspiration and careful exercise, a flavoring in the general indie rock milieu of the early 21st century that, for the moment, can have no greater impact.
  10. Q Magazine
    60
    If there is a criticism, it's that they lack thier own, unique sound, but this is still a breezily pleasing summer-evoking effort. [Jul 2009, p.122]
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