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Metascore
73

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  • Summary: The San Diego indie rockers return with an 11-track set that ditches the Latin elements of the previous record but retains their moody, cinematic sound.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 20
  2. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Bleak and broody music has never been quite so thrilling.
  2. As much as I loved Amore Del Tropico, The Spell comes across even more striking.
  3. These are songs that should be performed on a rare cabaret stage in a slum.
  4. New Musical Express (NME)
    70
    Again finds them excelling in the art of morbidity. [27 May 2006, p.33]
  5. The Spell cannot break free of the band’s successful formula without something a lot more challenging than this.
  6. Under The Radar
    60
    Sounds closer to a conventional band than anything they've done yet. [#13, p.83]
  7. Q Magazine
    40
    It's prevented from turning fancy by its grounding in some rudimentary rock dynamics. [May 2006, p.122]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. lilithc
    Jan 3, 2007
    10
    simply beautiful music.
  2. Jacob
    Jul 2, 2006
    9
    Brilliant. The Black Heart Procession as they should should - ominous, moody and atmospheric.