• Record Label: Island
  • Release Date: May 16, 2011
Metascore
49

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Q Magazine
    May 27, 2011
    60
    Lyrically, they may not be Pulitzer Prize contenders and sometimes--well, a lot of the time--you yearn for a little more musical adventurism, but there's good work here. [Jun 2011, p.123]
  2. Mojo
    May 20, 2011
    60
    Given the right mood and lighting, it is almost magical; in stark sunshine, less so. [Jun 2011, p.100]
  3. 40
    This album was their biggest and best opportunity to change that perception, but no matter how many freight-loads it ends up selling by, it hasn't succeeded.
  4. May 20, 2011
    40
    Listening to them outside that ideal environment, they're decent enough songs, even if Shooting the Moon was formerly U2's Bullet the Blue Sky. But the gravel-voiced Nick Brown's quest to become "bigger than Bono" has left him sounding overwrought and a dreadful ham.

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