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  • Summary: Robert Pollard continues his prolific release of music with the indie band's fourth album since reuniting in 2012.
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Magnet
    May 10, 2013
    85
    What's great about English Little League very much preaches to the choir. But it's nevertheless clear this crew is ready to welcome some new converts once more. [No. 98, p.51]
  2. May 2, 2013
    80
    English Little League is a red wheelbarrow full of awesome.
  3. Mojo
    May 20, 2013
    80
    GBV's only LP of 2013 and it's a good'un. [Jun 2013, p.95]
  4. May 1, 2013
    68
    Triumphant as the return itself has been, the records themselves have really only skirted triumph. English Little League is no different.
  5. May 2, 2013
    60
    English Little League just misses greatness, but if it’s not the best album they’ve put out since early 2012, it’s certainly the most interesting, the most willing to take risks.
  6. Apr 30, 2013
    60
    English Little League, like most of Pollard’s crop from the past decade, holds a few really great tracks, but is mostly missable.
  7. May 24, 2013
    50
    English Little League starts with a memorable and high-quality opener in “Xeno Pariah,” a compact showcase of everything the band does right.... They don’t maintain that high quality--the off-key “Sir Garlic Breath” is just painful--and more often than not, the songs fall into good-not-great territory.

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