Threes
by Sparta
Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 2 out of 15
  1. Alternative Press
    80
    Their most accomplished and least anxious record yet. [Nov 2006, p.182]
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  2. Urb
    80
    As emo-tastic as Threes is, it merely sizzles in ways their debut singed. [Oct 2006, p.128]
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  3. AllMusic
    80
    Sparta... sounds like a beast that's broken its chains and is fighting between the road ahead and going back from whence it came.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    Recall[s] a punkier U2. [27 Oct 2006, p.72]
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  6. Filter
    70
    Call it diversity; call it inconsistency; whatever. Moving in some direction is half the battle. [#22, p.93]
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  7. NOW Magazine
    70
    It's clear Sparta have finally come into their own.
  8. New Musical Express (NME)
    70
    If Sparta have been damned thus far as the weaker of ATDI's progeny, let it be so no longer.
  9. Uncut
    70
    There's mammoth hooks and meaningful shouting galore here. [Jul 2007, p.116]
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  10. Pitchfork
    61
    The group is a conglomeration of influences that, while pleasant enough, doesn't rise above being anything more than a mixing board of cool-sounding favorites.
  11. Spin
    60
    Sparta have evolved, with a melodic approach and a postdepression, fist-pumping attitude. [Nov 2006, p.104]
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  12. PopMatters
    50
    The newest incarnation of Sparta has that “trying too hard” sound to it, a sound that’s careful and measured, a sound that sounds just a little too bound to the studio for a rock band.
  13. Stylus Magazine
    42
    Threes is their most average album yet, sounding similar to their two previous full-lengths but lacking the confrontational loudness of Wiretap Scars or the precision of Porcelain.
  14. The A.V. Club
    42
    Where Amputechture is directionless but at least clever about masking its influences, Threes is directionless and completely predictable.
  15. Magnet
    30
    The truth is, even Angels & Airwaves do this sort of epic-emo thing with more verve, if not more Verve. [#73, p.96]
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  16. Austin Chronicle
    20
    A nearly unlistenable, shiny mess of weepy college rock.

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#100 Most Shared Album of 2006

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User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. NathanG
    Jan 11, 2007
    10
    This album is brilliant! I don't know what the critics are on about but I can't find a song on that album which iI don't This album is brilliant! I don't know what the critics are on about but I can't find a song on that album which iI don't love!! Sparta ROCKS!… Full Review »
  2. JenyaC
    Dec 9, 2006
    10
    Flawless & full of depth. Dark in its tone, but easy on the spirit. I could not recommend it more.
  3. DerricL
    Nov 11, 2006
    10
    This one took me a couple listens, but I enjoy it every bit as much as thier previous two, excellent album!
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