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3.5 great | FlawedPerfection EMERITUS | December 26th 06 | It's funny that I call myself a music reviewer. I am so detatched from everyday pop culture that I have no clue what the #1 song is right now. I've probably never heard it. But there's certain bands that reach my ears and I like what I hear. Switchfoot is one of those bands. Oh! Gravity. came as a big surprise to me. I expected an album of mediocre to good pop rock songs with a few that really stood out. What I got was about half an album of those and then another half with Switchfoot trying all kinds of new sounds and feels. With songs ranging from an odd-metered blues to a beautiful string-aided rock song, Switchfoot put all their effort into this and they come out shining.
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3.0 good | Jacob Clark | June 2nd 16 | In Oh! Gravity., Switchfoot attempts to change things up at times and usually succeeds. "Dirty Second Hands" and the 5/4 "Circles" show a great amount of ingenuity that hasn't been present in the band's discography to this point. However, it doesn't blend with the pop-rock tracks on the album that well because they lack much of that same experimentation, and therefore the album feels a bit incohesive. To make matters worse, most of the attempts at balladry don't work squarely because the band is a rock band through and through and can't get quiet enough to nail the softer side of things. Overall, Switchfoot deserves some applause for trying to go outside of their creative box. Too bad it didn't work out as well as it could have.
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3.0 good | yeabyeab | May 2nd 14 | Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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3.5 great | BroFro | March 3rd 11 | Yesterdays. Man what a powerful song. Every other song feels even worse because of how good Yesterdays is. In truth, the rest of the album isn't that bad (excluding Circles and Head Over Heels, awful tracks), but this effort never had a chance at being as good as their two previous albums.
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2.5 average | AtavanHalen | October 9th 07 | An unfortunately huge dissapointment given the top quality record that was Nothing Is Sound. The band sound tired and out of ideas, and only a few songs actually go anywhere. The track "Circles" describes more than it means to with its chorus: "Spinning...in circles...in circles...in circles".
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4.5 superb | Aymax | March 10th 14 |
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1.5 very poor | Comj | December 16th 10 |
3.0 good | Slum | December 6th 10 |
3.5 great | Irving EMERITUS | September 11th 10 |
4.0 excellent | csholm | June 16th 10 |
3.5 great | Mace | June 14th 10 |
4.0 excellent | Janze | May 24th 10 |
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2.5 average | soap91 | March 8th 10 |
3.0 good | Hro | February 15th 10 |
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3.5 great | JWT155 | December 13th 09 |
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4.5 superb | Xelis | November 8th 09 |
2.0 poor | cam | August 11th 09 |
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1.5 very poor | detulven | September 27th 08 |
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5.0 classic | jh0489 | September 19th 07 |
5.0 classic | adoydyl | August 30th 07 |
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