Total Loss
by How to Dress Well
  • Record Label: Acephale
  • Release Date: Oct 2, 2012
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
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  1. All_ButTrU4
    Mar 26, 2022
    6
    Original score:7/10 [29/09/21]

    Rescore: 6.0/10 [27/03/22] it's an album that ceaselessly overflows with love and a desire to reach out and relate, and it's this that makes such a heavy album so accessible and so good but even though not a loss it's barely an achievement. Hanging on to slivers of pop gems such as the opener or career higlight "cold nites". Moments like this make a    Original score:7/10 [29/09/21]

    Rescore: 6.0/10 [27/03/22]

    it's an album that ceaselessly overflows with love and a desire to reach out and relate, and it's this that makes such a heavy album so accessible and so good but even though not a loss it's barely an achievement. Hanging on to slivers of pop gems such as the opener or career higlight "cold nites". Moments like this make a case for a better album bogged by underdeveloped vocals and cookie cutter lyrics that rely more on his questionable delivery that he continously falls short on.    … Expand

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Delusions of Adequacy
    Dec 7, 2012
    80
    With eleven songs, the album flows serenely well and sounds like a two part voyage; the second half much weightier, the first half perhaps more buoyant.
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  2. Uncut
    Sep 28, 2012
    80
    An intriguing new artist has found his voice. [Nov 2012, p.76]
  3. Spin
    Sep 25, 2012
    70
    Total Loss is a beautiful album, all ambient longing and sadness and spectral pop, rising and falling without warning - no other artist gets more emotional effect out of leaving things not quite finished. But it still feels not quite finished.
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