Hehe...Rolling Stone dropped the ball on Pinkerton and they did it again here. Spin and Rolling Stone just keep on proving why no one with more than half a brain even reads their magazines anymore. They Were Wrong is one of the more challenging albums I've ever come across and after wrestling with it for, what, two years now? I've come to the unmistakable conclusion that it';s probably the best alubm ever, only in disguise.… Expand

In ten years, we will all look back upon this album and realize that it is one of the finest acheivements of the early 21st century. All of the naysayers of today will be laughed at, and the few of us that recognize this album as groundbreaking will be grinning from ear to ear. This album falls into place among the likes of Kid A, among others. Splendid.

The best CD (and probably the only) to rip off the first This Heat album wholesale right down to the multitracked flat harmonies. You can always depend on Rolling Stone and Spin to be a reverse barometer on challenging music.

F*cking ace.

Totally unbelievably brilliant... This is the incarnation of hope for contemporary rock. No other band can touch this Utterly awesome

It is no surprise that Liars have been so roundly scorned by mainstream music press for this cd. Unlike during the no-wave era of the late-70s and early-80s, today there are far fewer journalists out there willing to challenge themselves with music so willingly atonal, and, certainly, conceptually imaginative. Liars evoke a bleak and spooky audio version of Milller's "The Crucible" crossed with the mood of one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's horror tales from early New England. If you liked the first CD only because of its danceable bass lines and don't care for experimental and/or concept albums, then this is probably not for you. Again, no surprise that this Cd has so polarized the critics since most critics are only interested in melody, groove or the "prettiness" of ambient sound in post-rock. If you want to seriously open your horizons to one of the better Cds of 2004, light some black candles, dim the lights and put this in your cd player for half an hour.… Expand

Yeah, I agree with those who say it's too much, too dark, too whatever- but once you stop teeth-grinding and just listen, I think you'll find a fantastic album underneath.

Shit this is so wired but i like it

First of all, people who claim that this album is unlistenable pay too much attention to critics. Even just a cursory listen reveals that not only is it very listenable, but most often quite engaging. It is one of the few releases of the year I can still listen to all the way through. Not only do I just plain like this release, but also it earns it's place in my canon by its sheer ability to divide. Also, in this time, it is always a good sign of an album's originality that comparisons to other artists are very rarely consistent from review to review and often based on very tenuous connections. Over all, still, five months after its release, I see it as perhaps the most interesting and most deserving album of the year thus far.… Expand