• Record Label: Output
  • Release Date: Oct 25, 2005
Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Magnet
    90
    Colder achieves a startling freshness on its second full-length that few post-punk bands can even hope to approach. [#70, p.89]
  2. Mojo
    80
    While there's more than a little influence from early New Order here, one can also hear echoes of Suicide, PiL's Metal Box and the motorik reveries of Cluster. [Jul 2005, p.112]
  3. Reminiscent without sounding derivative, this is another fine effort from Tan.
  4. It's all beautifully insidious.
  5. Q Magazine
    70
    It pushes many of the same buttons as DFA/LCD Soundsystem, but with a sensuous Gallic cool missing from the more angular Anglo-Americans. [Jul 2005, p.112]
  6. Blender
    70
    Enough human warmth sneaks through to make this second album exciting and affecting. [Nov 2005, p.133]
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. MarkB
    Feb 27, 2006
    6
    At its best intriguing, at its worst uninspired. Would have been better pared down to a 5-track EP.
  2. RicardoV
    Nov 5, 2005
    10
    Absolutely outstanding!