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- Summary: This is the debut full-length for the Baltimore four-piece whose frontman (James Johnson) bears a strong vocal resemblance to John Lydon.
- Record Label: Jagjaguwar
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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What Wilderness really seem to signify-- and what makes them important-- is a shift back towards the more cerebral end of the rock spectrum.
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Their songs are sublime and obnoxious and sure to inspire revulsion as much as admiration.
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Wilderness is one of those albums where if you like one song, you like the whole lot, and vice versa.
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A complex yet intriguing soundscape.
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Though The Wilderness is filled with stunning songs, by album’s end, they tend to meld together. Their uniformity is their greatest fault, though admittedly one that can be overlooked during its best moments.
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MagnetOverwhelmingly desolate. [#69, p.112]
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Someone needs to tell them that just sounding important doesn’t mean they actually are important.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 9
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Mixed: 2 out of 9
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Negative: 1 out of 9
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MatthewSJan 9, 2006Overlooked and savagely underrated, Wilderness makes Joy Division's Closer look like it should have been sung by David Byrne
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BartakMay 16, 2006The voice is powerful, the idiots don't know music if it bit them on their asses.
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TimH.Aug 24, 2009
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jackkerouacNov 16, 2005wilderness is better than pil.
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RyanBDec 3, 2005Sounds good at first, but gets monotonous and boring. Good songs, but mediocre album. It's just missing something
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TimNov 17, 2005The music is great. The lead singer's voice is incredibly annoying.
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JosephSDec 4, 2005
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