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THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS "Twin Cinema" Reviews
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Release: 23 Aug 2005
Label: Matador Records
Genre: Rock
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| FakeJazz |
Rating: 10.0 |
Songs have 3, 4, 5 hooks or more; it's an album of glaringly obvious catchiness - not to it's detriment, mind you, but that's the way it stands
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| Artist direct |
Rating: 10.0 |
Nobody else is doing what the New Pornographers do any more.
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| Aversion |
Rating: 10.0 |
Like all your favorite pop albums, Twin Cinema gels around a certain indefinable quality that makes its charms nearly impossible to pin down, while being absurdly easy to spot.
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| Reveal |
Rating: 10.0 |
The New Pornographers may remind you of a hundred different bands at once, but they’re clearly in a league all of their own.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 9.0 |
No matter the gradient of the pop terrain, the New Pornographers stay in frame and in focus
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 9.0 |
With more developed ideas than Mass Romantic and a more cohesive sound than Electric Version, it's their most consistent, confident, and best album to date.
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 9.0 |
The New Pornographers, according to the band's biog, are a Vancouver indie supergroup.
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| ShakingThrough |
Rating: 8.2 |
Twin Cinema has the winning distinction of being the most rocking set from the Pornographers to date -- and also the strangest.
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| Amazon |
Rating: 8.0 |
Twin Cinema offers every member of this insanely talented ensemble the chance to shine.
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| PasteMagazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
Alternately, Twin Cinema is compulsively playable, a cohesive collection of razor-sharp pop bliss.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 8.0 |
This exemplifies what Twin Cinema accomplishes for the New Pornographers -- it's a tightly constructed unit simply and casually presenting the case that this is the best pop band around.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 7.5 |
Does the third effort from the New Pornographers sound as great as the pair that preceded it? The short answer: no.
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| DustedMagazine |
Rating: 7.5 |
Like the other NPs records, Cinema can be a chore to listen to at times, but it happens less often than its predecessors, and on the immediate level - because let's not forget what kind of band we're talking about - it simply has a high ratio of really good songs to cloying songs.
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| InsidePulse |
Rating: 7.0 |
The dissonance between the two singers is enough to make one think twice about the simple lyrics. Think of them as a candy-coated version of the Pixies.
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| Splendidezine |
Rating: 6.5 |
It's good, but it isn't that good
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