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Melodic post-punk rarely sounds as beautiful, exciting, or emotionally connected as it does on Two Thousand.
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It’s hard to imagine The French Kicks making a great album, given their limited changes so far. That doesn’t change the fact that Two Thousand is a very good one.
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Alternative PressAn appealing album. [Sep 2006, p.214]
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Under The RadarTwo Thousand is the rare follow-up miles-away better than its breakthrough predecessor. [Summer 2006]
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Filter[They've] caught on to what all those indies don't get--it's not just "tension;" it's "tension/release." [#21, p.100]
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UrbFrench Kicks have smoothed out the jagged guitars and off-kilter rhythms... in favor of a cleaner, more understated sound. [Jul/Aug 2006, p.120]
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Two Thousand is nothing if not well crafted; that it doesn't have more memorable moments is as frustrating as it is mystifying.
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For all the improved minutiae, French Kicks simply can't shed the "boring" tag.
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So Two Thousand is rich in guitar-disco atmosphere and tone. But it's weirdly lacking in personality.
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SpinIt's uniformly catchy. [Sep 2006, p.102]
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The French Kicks have become too smooth and repetitive; they have been polished featureless and barely resemble four distinct personalities contributing to one idea.
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Every song seems to run at roughly the same tempo, and any shifts in mood are too subtle to mark the passing of one track to the next. Ultimately, though, the album’s greatest deficit is its lack of strong and memorable melodic ideas.
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A sleepy stretch of mediocrity that unfolds with lackluster monotony, Two Thousand once again fails to live up to the potential suggested by their One Time Bells debut.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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kratebarrelAug 16, 2006
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swccwsAug 10, 2006Definately the best yet from the FKs.
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AaronQAug 7, 2006