Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1
by The Paper Chase
  • Record Label: Redeye
  • Release Date: May 26, 2009
Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. PopMatters
    70
    This is more than some disparate litany of distant apocalyptic perils, however. There’s a deeper and more germane thread running through the album.
  2. Pitchfork
    68
    Yet like last time, there are plenty of sturdy, major-key melodies that go straight for the jugular. But whatever sing-along quality they have, their effectiveness is almost always determined by context.
  3. Prefix Magazine
    60
    The band does achieve some small strides forward here, and gives us a few great tracks, but mostly Cogleton and crew leave me wondering exactly what it is I should be afraid of.
  5. Tiny Mix Tapes
    60
    This is expertly crafted music, but perhaps too intent on being discomforting: the music intentionally aims to unsettle you.
  6. Dusted Magazine
    50
    The music offers plenty of reasons to feel good about feeling bad; too bad that the lyrics, which suggest these feelings in the first place, evacuate themselves moments after they surface, making for a curiously glossy listening experience.
  7. New Musical Express (NME)
    30
    It’s decent in places but it’s just… you know that feeling you get when someone you love is so wracked with pointless worry that you just want to shake them and shake them until they snap out of it?

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User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Turntwice13
    May 9, 2011
    10
    This album is astonishing. Critics also panned Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Critics rarely appreciate the trueThis album is astonishing. Critics also panned Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Critics rarely appreciate the true avant garde.… Full Review »
  2. MartinS.
    Aug 18, 2009
    10
    I really don't understand, why the reviews are so bad. This is surely not for everyone, but nevertheless it's a great record and I I really don't understand, why the reviews are so bad. This is surely not for everyone, but nevertheless it's a great record and I love it, how "He's got the whole world" and "Fairytails of New York" is embedded in this catastrophic sound.… Full Review »
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