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The disc succeeds by merging a unity of sounds with a complex variety of emotions.
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Like the best divorce albums, it offers sadness, pathos, and the electric thrill of great music forged in the crucible of pain.
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The main album is sharp and vitriolic and honest, with hardly a place to take a breath.
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They've said their piece and torn each other into pieces–we're left to rubberneck at the crack-up.
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The Mendoza Line have created an album that has had many talking, received the most recognition of their career, and will spawn repeat play on the CD players of many.
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Their caustic, candid wit--especially in the face of such misery--keeps 30 Year Low from sounding too self-indulgent or self-pitying.
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SpinFor a band named after a benchmark of mediocrity, it's fitting that they bow out consumed by matters so ordinary. [Sep 2007, p.134]
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In the end, 30 Year Low might not match up to its predecessor, but it is surely a compelling album by a band both at its creative peak and its unfortunate end.
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While the rest of the album flirts with the shivering, uncomfortable mood found on 'Since I Came,' it infrequently equals it.
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DavidA.Sep 5, 2007