The Loon - Tapes 'n Tapes
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Metascore
76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critics What's this?

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7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 57 Ratings

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  • Summary: The Minneapolis band's debut full-length has drawn comparisons to Pavement.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. musicOMH.com
    100
    The Loon will stand up as one of the best albums of the year, and Tapes 'n Tapes as a jewel in the American music crown.
  2. Playlouder
    80
    'The Loon' retains a genuinely empathetic sincerity that deserves applause, but should be praised to a greater degree for bringing weird, left-of-centre indie back to the fore.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    80
    And yet for all the disparate elements, we haven't heard a record all year so secure in its own vision, or a collection of songs that sound so much like they need to be together. The only downside of this is it kind of smothers the potential for standout Oh. My. God. moments.
  4. Dot Music
    60
    To be fair, "The Loon" stops short of pastiche, but it is too transparently a paean to Tape 'n Tapes' heroes.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 36
  3. Negative: 4 out of 36
  1. Marc
    10
    This is just really, really good. Pure and simple.
  2. jay
    8
    This album reminds me why I stay on metacritic. To find something that stands out that I might not have found. A cross between The Strokes and Arcade Fire with more of an upbeat. Take that suckas!!!… Expand
  3. DrunkenMaster
    7
    Best Pavement cover band EVER.
  4. jb
    4
    Totally overhyped stuff.

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