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| 3.0 good | Jared Floryan | June 15th 15 |
While a lack of creative ideas and unbalanced compositions are evident once you look deeper inside Madina Lake's pond, the Chicago-based band's debut full-length effort From Them, Through Us, To You presents itself as another entertaining (if obviously bland) pop punk release with acceptably wangsty vocals from Nathan Leone and mostly solid instrumentation that can more or less get a superfluous job done. The lyrics are unsurprisingly terrible, on the other hand, especially for what amounts to sappy high school poetry disguised as a concept record.
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| 0.0 | sin69 | April 20th 10 |
This album, while it doesn't bring anything new and mind-blowing, it's still a pretty enjoyable listen.. Solid musicianship, solid singing, everything sounds pretty average on its own, but put together makes for a really good pop-punk album.. Stand out songs IMO: Here I Stand, Adalia, Pandora and Stars as the best song on the album.. Pros certainly outweigh the cons by a beautiful margin..
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| 3.5 great | DaveyBoy EMERITUS | October 5th 09 |
Madina Lake's heavier brand of pop-punk may not be the most original sound, but their debut album 'From Them, Through Us, To You' is a fun listen on the back of a number of supremely catchy tracks. The 4 singles are infectious standouts, but they are well complemented by 'Now or Never', 'Stars' & the more post-hardcore leaning 'True Love', which all contain anthemic components that are high on the sing-along factor. The band is not as convincing when they attempt to branch out ('River People' & 'Morning Sadness'), but they predominantly know their strengths & never outstay their welcome. Recommended Tracks: Here I Stand, House of Cards, Pandora & One Last Kiss.
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| 3.5 great | HeidiH2260 | January 9th 09 |
I thought it was a pretty good album. I didn't like some of the songs too much, but over all they did pretty well in my opinion.
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| 4.0 excellent | woxdy | April 9th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Piem | March 12th 24 |
| 3.5 great | josh | June 10th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Josh | March 4th 19 |
| 3.5 great | maxer | November 15th 18 |
| 2.5 average | El Olam | January 20th 17 |
| 3.5 great | endtime | February 17th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Lassie | July 12th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | MaggieG | September 9th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aldous | December 29th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Pndi | November 4th 12 |
| 3.5 great | fyffe | October 21st 12 |
| 3.0 good | Mojito | April 30th 12 |
| 2.5 average | MTTS | February 5th 12 |
| 3.0 good | iGuter | January 29th 12 |
| 2.0 poor | Dunnus | November 29th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | Kpat182 | October 2nd 11 |
| 3.5 great | Bog91 | March 9th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | JFay82 | March 8th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | Eswin17 | February 13th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Karii | January 24th 11 |
| 3.5 great | whoaoh | December 28th 10 |
| 2.5 average | X3ni92 | November 15th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Spec | September 26th 10 |
| 3.0 good | tom960 | August 31st 10 |
| 1.5 very poor | ThePove | August 25th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Manon | June 10th 10 |
| 3.5 great | sneasy | March 4th 10 |
| 3.5 great | quik40 | February 5th 10 |
| 2.0 poor | Markk1 | January 6th 10 |
| 3.5 great | toyour | October 21st 09 |
| 2.5 average | renny48 | October 16th 09 |
| 3.0 good | d00derz | September 25th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Titan50 | August 20th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Rx512 | November 7th 08 |
| 2.5 average | natey | April 8th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Sempel | September 30th 07 |
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