Under A Billion Suns
by Mudhoney
  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Mar 7, 2006
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Filter
    91
    [Mudhoney] are as furious, as weird, and as tuned-down as ever. [#19, p.101]
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  2. Playlouder
    90
    A fabulous record.
  3. Lost At Sea
    80
    Its precision in sound and spirit can’t be denied; Under A Billion Suns is a triumphant, wild mess.
  5. Alternative Press
    80
    Their best record in years. [Apr 2006, p.218]
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  6. Prefix Magazine
    80
    Under a Billion Suns is a great record, and Mudhoney is one of the best bands in rock 'n' roll, period.
  7. Drowned In Sound
    80
    The rock these four men so easily brandish is every bit the equal, if not the better, of that deployed by so-called peers half their age.
  8. Mojo
    80
    With its indelible songs and bug-eyed intensity, this album makes you wish that more bands could be so irreverent. [Apr 2006, p.100]
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  9. AllMusic
    80
    Under a Billion Suns is one of the hardest and tightest albums this band has ever made.
  10. Delusions of Adequacy
    80
    Mudhoney is a new band lyrically and emotionally.
  11. Under The Radar
    80
    Musically, the boys prove once again that grunge needn't be reduced to Black Sabbath meets Black Flag. [#13, p.94]
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  12. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    Mudhoney's saving grace is their sardonic worldview, which is as touchingly sick as ever amid the horn-spiked, bluesy arrangements. [10 Mar 2006, p.69]
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  13. Rolling Stone
    70
    Mostly they deliver a bluesy sprawl full of meaty punk riffs and Stooges-schooled abandon that still outpaces less-inspired slop-rock bands. [9 Mar 2006, p.94]
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  14. PopMatters
    70
    The band’s best effort in over a decade.
  15. NOW Magazine
    70
    Their bleakest set of songs ever.
  16. New Musical Express (NME)
    70
    Rollickingly great fun to listen to. [4 Mar 2006, p.31]
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  17. Dusted Magazine
    70
    So what’s a band to do that sticks to its guns and produces some of the finest sludgy blues-punk this side of Blue Cheer? Well, for starters, add horns. Call it a gimmick or a last-ditch effort at reinvention, whatever the case, but it works.
  18. Pitchfork
    61
    What makes these weak attempts at earnestness all the more disappointing is that the music is great.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
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  1. RambaldiM
    May 26, 2006
    10
    Since I got their album I've turned over and over again. I know them from the beginning and this new album is their best punkrock album. Since I got their album I've turned over and over again. I know them from the beginning and this new album is their best punkrock album. It's kick out the jam. I saw them on 16h mai in Ghent, Belgium. For three full days I can't hear, man what I sound... Final : buy "A billion suns"… Full Review »
  2. MikeD
    Mar 24, 2006
    9
    Mudhoney's strongest album since EGBDF. It tightens up the unfiltered potenital of their 2002 release while rocking like their earlier Mudhoney's strongest album since EGBDF. It tightens up the unfiltered potenital of their 2002 release while rocking like their earlier releases. When are these guys going to get the audience they deserve!… Full Review »
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