Phantom Planet
- Phantom Planet
- Band Name: Phantom Planet
- Record Label: Sony
- Release Date: Jan 6, 2004
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The songs are better than solid. They're catchier than catchy. These songs are just good.
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80This album is like expert plastic surgery -- you know some of it may be artificial, but damn, ain't it good?
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79A record of overwhelming deconstruction and newly explored territorial demarcation.
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75Phantom Planet, although obviously representing a group still searching for its sonic niche, nonetheless manages to entertain, perhaps proving there can be life after "California."
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75The change may shock fans, but Phantom Planet wears the shaggy tunes well.
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75Ambitious, uneven. [Feb 2004, p.96]
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The relentlessness of the pillaging becomes one of the album’s virtues—each song wildly varies from the next, revealing thirty-five minutes of noise and pop that extends far beyond the surface into a slowly decaying singalong monster.
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Whether Phantom Planet will be the second coming of Cheap Trick remains to be seen, but for now, it neatly fills the void for trashy, catchy power pop left by Urge Overkill's premature burnout.
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The album is absurdly derivative -- songs like ''You're Not Welcome Here'' and ''By the Bed'' could be Strokes outtakes -- but something about its restless energy and sense of what-the-hell surprise is commendable.
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60[Several songs] sound way too much like Strokes castoffs, a situation little helped by... Fridmann's unusually heavy-handed production. [Mar 2004, p.125]
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This willfully noisy, messy album is ultimately just as contrived as the band's glossier sound was, and the shift from The Guest's winsome pop -- which was also a shift from their debut's heavily Weezer-influenced sound -- makes it difficult to get a grip on the band.
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What Phantom Planet lack in stripped-down hooks they make up for with a full-bodied guitar attack and big, bloodletting choruses.
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Phantom Planet are shooting for something a bit less sunny here than their last outing. [Mar 2004, p.106]
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40The whole affair comes off like a desperate bit of trend trawling. [Feb 2004, p.99]
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40This is as cynical a mish-mash of popular trends as you can imagine. [May 2004, p.106]
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SeamusS10One of the few albums in recent years I can honestly call an inspired Masterpiece. No pretention, heavy, tight, brilliant
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amyt10i think its amazing. their albums are always always fantastic
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JebJ9