Wilderness - Wilderness
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Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the debut full-length for the Baltimore four-piece whose frontman (James Johnson) bears a strong vocal resemblance to John Lydon.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. What Wilderness really seem to signify-- and what makes them important-- is a shift back towards the more cerebral end of the rock spectrum.
  2. Wilderness is one of those albums where if you like one song, you like the whole lot, and vice versa.
  3. 80
    Wilderness take the clang of post-punk and invest it with an elatory fervour. [Sep 2005, p.111]
  4. A complex yet intriguing soundscape.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. MatthewS
    10
    Overlooked and savagely underrated, Wilderness makes Joy Division's Closer look like it should have been sung by David Byrne
  2. jackkerouac
    8
    wilderness is better than pil.
  3. RyanB
    7
    Sounds good at first, but gets monotonous and boring. Good songs, but mediocre album. It's just missing something
  4. JosephS
    2
    None of these reviews contain the phrase "crazy yelling guy." If you're thinking about buying this album, please note that it there is a crazy yelling guy, yelling all crazy, on every track. In fact, I downloaded this, burnt it onto a CD so I could listen to it in my car, and then threw it away. Expand

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