The Fallen Leaf Pages
by Radar Bros.
  • Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Mar 22, 2005
Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. AllMusic
    60
    The Fallen Leaf Pages is the kind of record that holds no surprises or excitement, the kind that sounds over before it reaches the halfway point.
  2. Dusted Magazine
    60
    The Fallen Leaf Pages settles comfortably into the band's canon, delivering no surprises, no gimmicks, no gags, no quirks and no affectations.
  3. PopMatters
    60
    The Fallen Leaf Pages is the group's fourth record, and it sounds a lot like their third record, which was quite similar to the second one, which had a striking resemblance to the first one.
  5. Stylus Magazine
    58
    The Fallen Leaf Pages starts strong and tails off, but even that would be more forgivable if Putnam’s writing was as distinctive as it used to be.
  6. Junkmedia
    60
    The Radar Brothers have been called "pastoral," "wandering" and "spacey." Their latest, The Fallen Leaf Pages, adds nothing new to this mix of descriptors.
  7. Paste Magazine
    60
    Finds them doing pretty much what they've always done (hardly bad news). [#16, p.149]
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  8. Prefix Magazine
    40
    Put simply, this music is slow, the same slow soggy tempo the whole way through.
  9. Uncut
    60
    Their drowsy lullabies and minor-key melodies are now so commonplace... that much of it seems unremarkable. [Dec 2005, p.109]
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  10. BBC collective
    60
    Stately, midtempo tunes whose immaculate production belies the darkness at their core.
  11. Drowned In Sound
    60
    This isn’t a half-formed album as such, just that it’s statued unchanging tempo and unvarying instrumentation leave potential developments lying by the roadside.

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User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. jeremyc
    Jun 26, 2005
    9
    I agree with the last comments! Try this album if you like Grandaddy, Radiohead, The Flaming lips and so on...!
  2. KatieR
    May 20, 2005
    10
    This album is more interesting every time I listen to it. I love it!
  3. WayneB
    May 18, 2005
    9
    Another solid release from the most unhearlded L.A. band (with exception to Acetone, R.I.P.) over the past dozen years ! Buy this record and Another solid release from the most unhearlded L.A. band (with exception to Acetone, R.I.P.) over the past dozen years ! Buy this record and see what you've been missing...Those who have followed this band already agree!… Full Review »
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