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Under A Billion Suns Image
Metascore
73

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  • Summary: The veteran Seattle rockers return with an album produced by Phil Ek, Johnny Sangster, and Tucker Martine.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 23
  2. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Filter
    91
    [Mudhoney] are as furious, as weird, and as tuned-down as ever. [#19, p.101]
  2. Under a Billion Suns is a great record, and Mudhoney is one of the best bands in rock 'n' roll, period.
  3. Its precision in sound and spirit can’t be denied; Under A Billion Suns is a triumphant, wild mess.
  4. 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.
  5. 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]
  6. Their bleakest set of songs ever.
  7. Q Magazine
    40
    Most... is either shapeless mush or verging on self-parody. [Apr 2006, p.116]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  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" Collapse
  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! Expand