• Record Label: Kranky
  • Release Date: Feb 28, 2012
Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. The Wire
    Apr 18, 2012
    70
    Disappears present an album that sounds pretty confident in its pursuit of forward motion yet distractingly familiar. [Mar 2012, p.65]
  2. Uncut
    Mar 13, 2012
    70
    The malevolence and needling insistency of Gang Of four and Fugazi are this record's core. [Apr 2012, p.77]
  3. Mar 5, 2012
    70
    It might not rocket them out of their obscurity but Disappears have created a record that can appease fans happy with how they sounded anyway and those that are searching for something new.
  4. Mojo
    Mar 1, 2012
    80
    With tensions at its core, Pre Language fuses white light with the darkness of anxiety. [Mar 2012, p.102]
  5. Mar 1, 2012
    80
    Pre Language is some of Disappears' most confident, most accessible music yet.
  6. Mar 1, 2012
    62
    This album feels more like a series of genre exercises, a place in which they occasionally work up a palpable tension, but never enough to make this more than an adequate diversion from the resources they're obviously sourcing.

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