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A complex yet intriguing soundscape.
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Someone needs to tell them that just sounding important doesn’t mean they actually are important.
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MagnetOverwhelmingly desolate. [#69, p.112]
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What Wilderness really seem to signify-- and what makes them important-- is a shift back towards the more cerebral end of the rock spectrum.
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Their songs are sublime and obnoxious and sure to inspire revulsion as much as admiration.
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Wilderness is one of those albums where if you like one song, you like the whole lot, and vice versa.
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Though The Wilderness is filled with stunning songs, by album’s end, they tend to meld together. Their uniformity is their greatest fault, though admittedly one that can be overlooked during its best moments.
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UncutWilderness take the clang of post-punk and invest it with an elatory fervour. [Sep 2005, p.111]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 10
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Mixed: 2 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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TimH.Aug 24, 2009
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BartakMay 16, 2006The voice is powerful, the idiots don't know music if it bit them on their asses.
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MatthewSJan 9, 2006Overlooked and savagely underrated, Wilderness makes Joy Division's Closer look like it should have been sung by David Byrne