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These Four Walls - We Were Promised Jetpacks
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72 out of 100

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8.3 out of 10

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  • Summary: The debut album for the Scottish indie-rock quartet.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. The A.V. Club
    91
    These Four Walls is like a 50-minute, 11-song tour through the Scottish scene's past, present, and future, emphasizing how much of the country's best pop music has been concerned with transporting listeners to specific places, so we can all linger there together.
  2. Mojo
    80
    As this crackles with youthful brio and subtlety, we can start speculating what this band may go on to achieve. [Aug 2009, p.98]
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  3. Uncut
    60
    The passion evident throughout help disguise the feeling we've been here before. [Jul 2009, p.109]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. IsaacA
    10
    With a Scottish drawl akin to The View they combine the pop know-how of Snow Patrol, the talent for the slow-burning epic of Sigur Ros, and the driving guitar work of Biffy Clyro.… Expand
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  2. EliasK.
    5
    Dull and staged. You keep waiting for these songs to break through and explode with some kind of energy but they fall flat.
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