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Screw Wilco; In Our Gun is sounding very much like the Album of the Year.
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Buy this album and hold it dear, because you won't hear a better one any time soon.
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The end result is creative, inspired and, most important, individual.
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MojoThe aural palette is as wide as ever... but in the service of songs that might be sung on the morning train, under stars on a moonless night or even in the bath. [Apr 2002, p.116]
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In Our Gun fulfills the group's early promise, integrating touches of Radiohead-style avant-garde atmospherics into a set of songs that are on the whole shorter, looser, and punchier than any of its predecessors.
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In Our Gun has all the elements that made their debut so great, and then some.
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Gomez continue to make powerfully relevant music.
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MagnetThe 13-song set gurgles and gloops with the surreal intensity of a Morricone score revisted by a Bollywood auteur/mixmaster. [#54, p.91]
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Entertainment WeeklyGomez's three-vocalist acoustic vamps [are] now festooned with gadgetry. [3 May 2002, p.88]
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The five-piece British band has mastered the art of the recording studio, and this self-produced effort boasts the breathless enthusiasm of someone who's finally learned a difficult craft.
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A little more emotional chaos, a dash of the dark stuff, might make such avuncular campfire grooves more worthy of our time and money.
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It's an okay album, not nearly as overproduced as Liquid Skin nor as unnecessary as Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline. It isn't anywhere near the stellar debut, though, which is quickly becoming a tag Gomez is sick of hearing.
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A slick, curious concoction that sounds like Dave Matthews crossed with the Beta Band.
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The middling adult contemporary slop, although awful, isn’t what ultimately drowns In Our Gun. That blame can fall squarely in the lap of misguided attempts at moody electronica, something the band has more successfully dabbled in previously.
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UncutGomez's clattering eclecticism has won endless plaudits, but now seems like a red herring when their exploratory approach remains fixated on Dixieland, Seventies soul and hip hop. [Apr 2002, p.100]
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Q MagazineThe thing about prog rock is that it is supposed to progress. [Mar 2002, p.122]
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Alternative PressPacked with earnest but impotent stadium rock. [Jul. 2002, p.82]
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If anemic blues guitar riffs and half-assed attempts at white-boy soul were the only problems with In Our Gun, it might almost be passable.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 11
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Mixed: 1 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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AshBApr 6, 2006
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RobPepMar 20, 2006Great album that remains exciting probably because of 3 fantastic vocal performances keeping in fresh. superb album!
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JohnF.May 8, 2002Gomez once appeared to have something interesting going on, but it's been a long time and they've gotten nowhere. Forgetable.