• Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Jun 12, 2012
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 13
  2. Negative: 1 out of 13
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  1. Jun 12, 2012
    83
    Traps, gets plenty of mileage from those elements [sun, hot dogs, and babes by the pool], but it shoots them through with just enough worry and weary resignation to land them a notch above the typical empty-calorie summer jams.
  2. Magnet
    Jun 13, 2012
    80
    Most of Traps keeps the toes a-tapping with happily-sung, sad-bastard references to bygone lovers, running out of weed and coming of quarter-age. [No.88 p.57]
  3. Jun 12, 2012
    80
    Traps shakes with stoned-in-a-basement riffs and sarcasm.
  4. Jun 21, 2012
    70
    This two-faced record can be jarring, but the melodies stick, as does the venom in many of the lyrics.
  5. Jun 12, 2012
    70
    With softer edges, a fuller sound, and some clever detours that don't take them too far away from the Jaill sound, it's a good showing that proves they are too consistent to fall into a sophomore slump.
  6. Jun 12, 2012
    68
    The result is idiosyncratic pop-rock appealing to geeky outsiders and scene lifers that's perennially in short supply, largely by design.

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