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Take Me To The Sea
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews What's this?

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5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 11 Ratings

  • Summary: The debut album for the indie-rock band that features ex-members of the Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. Alternative Press
    90
    It's the sound of three musicians playing to their strengths while challenging their songwriting style, resulting in a cohesive listen that holds your attention to the end. [Sep 2008, p.156]
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  2. Drowned In Sound
    90
    Longing for The Blood Brothers (or even, of course, Pretty Girls Make Graves) is as futile as rating a current girlfriend against an ex: while both may have inspired your love, all that truly matters is the here and now. And Jaguar Love are very much of today. There is no turning back.
  3. AllMusic
    80
    The musicianship is mature--a jangly, shifting cornucopia of guitar, bass, organs, and drums--but it is practically ignorable behind the caterwauling wail of Johnny Whitney, which takes precedence over all.
  4. Spin
    70
    Johnny Whitney has made an art of singing like a deliriously deaf 12-year-old, but the debut of his new trio with Blood Brothers bandmate/guitarist Cody Votolato and ex–Pretty Girls Make Graves guitarist Jay Clark (now on drums) plays like a preteen daydream.
  5. The A.V. Club
    67
    His voice is annoying the way a fuzz guitar is overdriven: That's its point. Getting past it isn't always easy, but it can be rewarding as Whitney proved with his prior band, Seattle's Blood Brothers, and demonstrates intermittently at the head of Jaguar Love.
  6. Prefix Magazine
    60
    Take Me to the Sea [is] a cross between sloppy prog-rock and emo that ends up being less than a sum of its parts.
  7. Filter
    36
    This is an incredibly abrasive album.... There's screaming on this album, lots of it...nay, way too much. [Summer 2008, p.102]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. DavidC
    Aug 20, 2008
    10
    Mr. Whitney's voice is just incredible. Live and on record.
  2. EricL.
    Aug 20, 2008
    9
    That dude who gave them a zero is a jackass...the Faint sucks. But this is a great CD, it's like a sequel to Young Machetes, but also That dude who gave them a zero is a jackass...the Faint sucks. But this is a great CD, it's like a sequel to Young Machetes, but also it's not.… Collapse
  4. gentlemanphilosophy
    Aug 27, 2008
    5
    When I heard this album, I thought, I wonder if the lead singer is a hot girl? Then I found out "she" was a he. So then I thought, okay, When I heard this album, I thought, I wonder if the lead singer is a hot girl? Then I found out "she" was a he. So then I thought, okay, okay, but does he at least look like a girl? The answer was yes. And that's enough for me.… Expand
  5. EricH.
    Sep 19, 2008
    5
    Take Me to the Sea has its moments, but overall is extremely mediocre compared to its members' past releases.
  6. thedude
    Aug 19, 2008
    0
    Saw them live before The Faint. They suck balls!!!!!

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