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Root For Ruin - Les Savy Fav
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  • Summary: This is the fifth album for the New York City rock band led by Tim Harrington.

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  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 22
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  1. CMJ
    Jan 11, 2011
    80
    Root For Ruin is the best synthesis of its pop and oddball sides yet, with flailing, manic surges serving as comfortable bedrocks for solid melodic hooks.
  2. Spin
    80
    Root for Ruin's dreamy ferocity is familiar, but the feeling of camaraderie keeps growing.
  3. Sputnikmusic
    60
    It's so smooth, this record, that it's sometimes too smooth, to the point to being slight.

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