Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers
User Score
8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 120 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 112 out of 120
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 120
  3. Negative: 4 out of 120

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  1. MorganG
    May 10, 2006
    1
    This album is impossible to like. I tried and I tried to find some good in the cd, but came up with nothing. I took a chance when I bought this album and ended se up selling this album back to the store. If you like throwing your money down the drain, then this is the album for you.
  2. KevinK
    Aug 30, 2005
    0
    Hooray, another 17 dollar coaster.
  3. ElizabethP
    Mar 21, 2006
    2
    Just plain awful! It's incredibly hard to sit through any of the songs. A lot of the songs sound alike and the vocals are annoyingly cloying. All the "energy" that everyone professes they have doesn't make up for the weak songs. The New Pornographers are too busy trying to impress us with their array of instruments that they fail to create a single good song. No style and definitely no substance.… Expand
  4. EddieT
    Oct 24, 2005
    4
    I hate being one of those people that searches out new places on the Internet to gas their acrid opinions, but I have to tell someone: I just find Carl Newman's songs unbelievably dull. It was true for his solo record but never more than here. Isn't "These Are the Fables" completely predictable? Doesn't the faux cleverness, as in "Use It," make you shudder? Although it';s minorly funny/effective to cast a Bejar song as a campfire singalong, this album has so few new ideas. Instead of being its own album, it feels like a sequel to a sequel.… Expand
  5. TrishK
    Aug 22, 2005
    4
    Really not that good. Empty, brainless pop music that'll be forgotten with the decade.

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Metascore
85 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 32 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. Delusions of Adequacy
    80
    Twin Cinema is another great pop album from the New Pornographers, a release that's crammed with so many memorable melodies that the bumpier moments fade into the background.
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    100
    It's their trademark boisterous hyper-melodies... that will have you involuntarily humming their praises for weeks (months!) to come. [26 Aug 2005, p.59]
  3. Paste Magazine
    80
    Exhilarating and complex enough to keep you warm year-round. [Aug/Sep 2005, p.108]
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