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- Summary: The New York band fronted by Hamilton Leithauser self-produced this third album.
- Record Label: Record Collection
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 26
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Mixed: 8 out of 26
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Negative: 1 out of 26
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It’s the band’s throatiest, most pressing and urgent release to date.
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Alternative PressA Hundred Miles Off is nearly 100-percent on. [Jul 2006, p.204]
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A set of rousing, sharply focused, late-night pleas and barroom romps that take the group well beyond its garage roots.
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Reveal[s] an unexpectedly lilting and rootsy side to its sound and a growing facility for evocative storytelling lyrics.
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Despite occasional flashes of inspiration, much of the record blends together into a whole that is somehow much less than the sum of its parts; the ingredients are colorful, but the end result is disappointingly dull.
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Q MagazineThis is an album steeped in classicism while still creating its own world. It just lacks the killer song. [Oct 2006, p.127]
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So while Hamilton Leithauser believes he's made a record comparable to the legendary 'The Basement Tapes', it seems almost churlish to point out that you'd be far better off digging out a copy of 'The Basement Tapes' and listening to it, than going out and purchasing 'A Hundred Miles Off' and listening to it once.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 25
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Mixed: 5 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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MaxTJul 5, 2006
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JPMay 24, 2006
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brandyaMay 28, 2006
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RyanSMay 24, 2006What gives? I like this album a lot. Sure it's different, but different is good.
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adamhMay 29, 2006highlights indlude: this job is killing me, tenleytown, lousiana, emma get me a lemon, lost in boston, another one goes by
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AndrewLMay 23, 2006It takes a couple of listens , but i have grown to enjoy it very much.
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JamesDMay 22, 2006
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