Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 26
  2. Negative: 0 out of 26
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  1. 60
    It’s both mesmerically appealing and cacophonously repellent, a paradoxical blend repeated in the shrill, thrumming monotony of “Austerity Blues”.
  2. 50
    The problem is that the vocals sound generic.
  3. Jan 31, 2014
    50
    It has all their trademarks--simultaneously elaborate and raw, idiosyncratically punk-rock, dedicated to chronicling the unrelenting ugliness of western society--but this time little of it sticks.
  4. The Wire
    Jan 29, 2014
    50
    If music is ever really going to change the world, it's going to need more vigour and vitality than this. [Jan 2014, p.66]
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 27
  2. Negative: 1 out of 27
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    10
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  2. Feb 22, 2014
    9
    Vigour and vitality are here in spades, so I'm not sure what record The Wire is talking about. This is very exciting, I think, but I've onlyVigour and vitality are here in spades, so I'm not sure what record The Wire is talking about. This is very exciting, I think, but I've only listened to it once. Full Review »
  3. Jan 30, 2014
    9
    I'm not too familiar with this band, but I can't stop listening to this record. It's a masterpiece of noise and emotion. It's punk rock byI'm not too familiar with this band, but I can't stop listening to this record. It's a masterpiece of noise and emotion. It's punk rock by people who know how to play their instruments but choose not to. I hear so many touchstones of music I love in this record; it's Velvet Underground, Flaming Lips, and Sonic Youth together, but it's unlike anything I've heard before. The first two thirds of the record pummels you with aggressive commands (or are they pleas?) to love each other and secular prayers for the future of our children. The second half is a mournful elegy for the end of the world; it's a warning from our collective ghost of futures yet to come. Only we can decide if the striking images in "What We Loved is not Enough" are of things that will be or things that may be only. These folks lay it all on the line. This is an album for those that have more than an abstract notion about the seriousness of what's at stake in living an unexamined life. This is a record for those that are too old for pretense, who have looked into the dawn of .the day when we no longer feel and chose to keep living. Full Review »