• Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: Jul 7, 2009
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. We have an album that displays a band with considerable potential, but which is disappointingly lacking in imagination: compositionally and lyrically.
  2. With a bit of luck, Broken Records won’t be afraid to indulge themselves a little more in the future, because it would be a minor tragedy to see such a worldly band opt to wallow in mediocrity
  3. There are moribund string melodies here that would be at home in a BBC costume drama, and when they address global warming, their politicised folk-rock calls the distinctly unfashionable likes of the Levellers to mind.
  4. Mojo
    60
    The overall feeling, despite all the musical mix'n'matching is of a traditional record: a rootsy return, rather than a copy of a certain Canadian seven-piece art-rock racket. [Jul 2009, p.105]
  5. Much of Until the Earth comes off like the narrator from "Windowsill" still telling these damn kids to get off his lawn.
  6. Q Magazine
    60
    This is a better than promising start. [Jul 2009, p.118]
User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. M@cooS
    Jul 8, 2009
    10
    Big music !