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Pieces Of The People We Love
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings

  • Summary: The New York City dance-punk outfit returns with a sophomore album a full three years after their debut 'Echoes.' 'Pieces' sees them ditching The DFA for new producers Ewan Pearson, Paul Epworth and Danger Mouse.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 27
  3. Negative: 2 out of 27
  1. Urb
    100
    The first truly great album of the dance-punk movement. [Sep 2006, p.132]
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  2. Stylus Magazine
    83
    Pieces of the People We Love is a great funky dance record with guitars, and not much more. Luckily, it doesn’t need to be.
  3. PopMatters
    80
    In the end, Pieces of the People We Love requires less investment from its listeners but offers all the dance-mayhem energy and the dueling guitar/saxophone bits that make up the band’s sound.
  4. Pitchfork
    78
    It's impressive then, that even with this newfound attention to detail, the Rapture still maintain a flailing energy and enthusiasm that most of the other dancepunk bands could only fake.... However, what ultimately makes Pieces a step or three down from Echoes is a drop off in consistency, reflecting a higher percentage of songs that fail to ignite.
  5. AllMusic
    70
    The uniformity of the album is at the expense of clear-cut standout tracks.
  6. Hartford Courant
    70
    Mostly, it's a trip into the not-too-distant past worth taking.
  7. Q Magazine
    30
    A serious let-down. [Oct 2006, p.119]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 22
  3. Negative: 5 out of 22
  1. [Anonymous]
    Dec 5, 2006
    10
    I really love it! Really grew on me.
  2. Patricio
    Sep 13, 2006
    10
    The best album of the year so far. They did it again. First Gear, The Devil and The Sound the highlights in an album that does not have weak points.
  4. JacksonG
    Dec 1, 2006
    9
    This album is great. You can't expect everything to be deep, sometimes an artist has a different focus. But, the lyrics do have some This album is great. You can't expect everything to be deep, sometimes an artist has a different focus. But, the lyrics do have some great points in them. The album sets out to fix a problem in our musical world... they sum this problem up in "Whoo! Alright- Yeah...": "People don't dance no more, they just stand there like this, they cross their arms and stare you down, they drink and moan and piss."… Expand
  5. Dan
    Sep 13, 2006
    7
    Lacks to sprawling rough punkness of Echoes, instead offering fine-tuned fade-in/fade-out individual songs. While I miss the unpredictability Lacks to sprawling rough punkness of Echoes, instead offering fine-tuned fade-in/fade-out individual songs. While I miss the unpredictability of Echoes, some of these tracks are just a blast to listen to. It's an album that definitely has it's missteps ("First Gear" "Callin Me") and its unmistakable hits ("Don Gon Do It" "WAYUH").… Expand
  6. MihaiV
    Mar 15, 2007
    7
    This ain't no "Echoes".
  7. LeoF
    Sep 13, 2006
    5
    there's just one really really good song: "the sound".
  8. JavierM
    Sep 19, 2006
    0
    Cheap music for cheap people...The cover, the new video, even the single is a ridiculous tune...Straight to the bin

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