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Q MagazineMay 2, 2011Their fifth long-player finds them back at their corrosive best. [Apr 2011, p.102]
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MojoApr 22, 2011Nothing here feels contrived. Instead we witness a rare thing: an inherently youthful band gracefully making good into their thirties. [Apr 2011, p.106]
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Jan 25, 2011There's no doubt that these guys can still rock with all the heart-on-sleeve younguns they've influenced; now they just have to rediscover something worth writing home about.
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Jan 24, 2011There Are Rules isn't a return to form sonically [...] but a return to results, a just-all-right record from a band that always felt a step behind even in their own genre.
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Mar 1, 2011Suffice to say, the once-beloved Kansas City quintet are not Radiohead, and whilst they may have left their pioneering, emo-infused pop-punk behind over a decade ago, nothing quite prepares the listener for the insipid snooze-a-thon they've concocted here.
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Jan 26, 2011There Are Rules doesn't contain a single tune that lingers afterward.
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Feb 18, 2011Here the Get Up Kids sound a bit confused and rusty, making There Are Rules a late career footnote of limited urgency.
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Under The RadarMar 23, 2011Try as they might the songs just aren't there. [Feb. 2011, p. 71]
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Jan 27, 2011There Are Rules sounds like the product of a band that knows well where it's been, but can't quite figure out yet where it wants to go.
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Jan 27, 2011On their fifth album, the Get Up Kids sound like a band who resent what made them popular in the first place.
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Jan 24, 2011While the style of rock for which they're best known might now be passé, the Get Up Kids pushes themselves entirely too far outside their comfort zone on There Are Rules, resulting in an album that is at turns strident and awkward.
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