Unified Theory - Unified Theory
Metascore
58 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
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  1. All Music Guide
    80
    Easily one of the best and most promising rock debuts since, well, Blind Melon's 1992 self-titled debut.
  2. Billboard
    80
    Unified Theory -- while recalling the sounds of such bands as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Rush -- offers up a bold and psychedelic modern rock set.
  3. Wall of Sound
    57
    Like far too many bands whose members bring strong musical pedigrees to the project, Unified Theory's sum is less than its parts -- despite, or perhaps because of, an abundance of adventurous spirit and experimental zeal.
  4. CDNow
    40
    Sadly, [lead vocalist Chris] Shinn's love of drama often overshadows the band's taut and atypical rhythm section, and the somewhat left-of-center construction of Thorn's guitar parts.
  5. Sonicnet
    30
    Unified Theory play melodramatic art rock (with a capital AOR) in a Meatloaf-meets-Jane's Addiction kind of way. Their music plods along with all the grace of a Pinto sans muffler, substituting grandiosity for grace and thus failing to achieve the dramatically transcendent sounds that Roy Orbison and Jeff Buckley once made.

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User Score
9.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 68 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 56 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 57
  3. Negative: 1 out of 57
  1. patrices
    10
    Amazingly awesome!
  2. mistyd
    10
    I freaking love this cd.......!
  3. SteveM
    10
    One of the best albums, production and song writting as well as musicianship that I've listened to in the last 30 years, really!!!
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