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| 3.0 good | gthawkins245 | May 20th 11 |
a lot different than I thought it would be but it's certainly worth a listen.
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| 3.0 good | pepster50 | March 12th 22 |
I love Houdini. I never really cared for Pumped Up Kicks. Cool indie pop record.
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| 4.5 superb | Introu1 | May 5th 21 |
Second listen to one of the first albums I ever listened too. I remmember really liking it, but got bored of some songs cause I listened to somes too much ( mainly Call it what you want/Dont Stop ). The start of the album is amazing, the lineup of songs cant get better than this : Helena Beats up too Dont Stop (Color on the wall) are all amazing song you need too give a shot. The rest of the album is still good but, dont have that same type of energy has in the beginning , at least ap art from Houdini. The rest of the album is a bit forgetful song wise, but it work well with the album. Anyway a classic, that remind me of being exited has a kid or something like that. 4,3/5
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| 3.1 good | Erwann S. EMERITUS | October 16th 20 |
Y'all know that kind of album, the one album with one giga hit and 9-10 other songs? This is one of 'em. It's so much one of them they actually wrote the album to back the song's popularity. Now, what song am I talking about? I'm talking indie pop banger, "Pumped Up Kicks". A fun jam for sure, and its mix of happy and melancholic is spread throughout the record. However, the overall soundscape tackles much more danceable territories than its single did. It results in a semi-party record, full of catchy refrains but adding too much of a bittersweet vibe to actually be an album to rock the party. It's fun though, but inoffensive in that sense, because we already know the album's best part before listening to it. It kinda feels like the 2011's "Oracular Spectacular": a cool album with passable tracks and pure bangers.
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| 3.5 great | lo-figuy | November 18th 14 |
Sweet, silly and pure indie pop rock with a handful of great tracks ("Pumped Up Kicks" is a damn fine song). Great to get in the indie mood, but perhaps a bit too harmless.
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| 3.0 good | Monstar1790 | March 16th 14 |
Starts strong with some great singles but loses steam towards the end. "Warrant" is easily the worst song on here and a poor choice to end the album.
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| 1.0 awful | pornogrindtheater | December 8th 13 |
Clearest example of the garbage fire that is modern pop trying to claim some semblance of "indie," whatever the fuck that means anymore. Completely unlistenable from start to finish.
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| 2.5 average | sarcasgnostic | October 19th 13 |
I was under the impression that the purpose of pop music was to create infectious, catchy music that is instantly memorable, but I guess I could be wrong...
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| 1.0 awful | MegaJake1024 | September 27th 12 |
I probably shouldn't even be rating this but I need to because pumped up kicks always gets played, and it make me so unhappy. I hate that song.
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| 0.0 | all my heroes are confields | April 18th 12 |
Pretty catchy album, nothing too amazing, but nothing too bad I'll be definitely singing these tunes in my head for a while.
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| 3.5 great | peaks40 | December 11th 11 |
sounds like a modern day beach boys, one of my favorites of the year
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| 3.0 good | zillah | August 13th 11 |
Like most people, my introduction to Foster the People was "Pumped Up Kicks", a horrid, lazy, omnipresent piece of goth-kitsch that nevertheless suggested an artist with the potential to churn out some non-horrid and potentially interesting pop. This debut album mostly supports this intuition: none of the ten other tracks on Torches is anywhere near as awful as "Pumped up Kicks". Highlights "Don't Stop (Color on the Walls)", "Houdini", and opener "Helena Beat" are actually pretty great, although the latter two have already been around for awhile having made their first appearance on January's Foster the People E.P. Unfortunately, Torches suffers from the bog-standard problem facing "bands" that are really solo artists with a couple of friends in tow. Most of the songs are interchangable one with another, not because of lazy songwriting, but because of a lack of range or any competing ideas. This is not helped by the presence of three tracks written by hired hands. "Miss You" in particular is indistinguisable from all the Foster compositions, making the boast that "what I got can't be bought", delivered by Foster but written for him by Paul Epworth on "Call It What You Want", unintentionally amusing. Still, these are solid electro-pop songs that stand up extremely well to repeat listening, due in large part to the meaty interplay of piano and synth, and Cubbie Fink's appealingly organic bass playing. They would be immensely fun to dance to at a festival while drinking wine on the grass. I bet they're fun to play live too. Burn bright, guys.
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| 3.5 great | boato | November 26th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Ainso | November 12th 24 |
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| 3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | March 21st 24 |
| 3.5 great | PTGS | April 20th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Sarah | May 5th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Watch | February 7th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | milkk | December 12th 21 |
| 3.5 great | vult | May 27th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Votex | May 21st 21 |
| 1.5 very poor | Trundle | June 25th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Sowing STAFF | June 1st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Darling | April 3rd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sly4evr | February 27th 20 |
| 3.0 good | kodama | December 21st 19 |
| 3.5 great | keza | November 7th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | A.R.O. EMERITUS | August 8th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | April 25th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Sam C. | September 17th 18 |
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| 2.5 average | xuewen | March 6th 18 |
| 2.5 average | BeeRyan | February 19th 18 |
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| 2.5 average | Brandon | September 9th 17 |
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| 3.5 great | Outtou | July 25th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | barc16 | July 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jaw | July 21st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh F. | June 23rd 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | gilly | May 24th 17 |
| 3.5 great | wg98 | May 12th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jade | April 28th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Corney | February 23rd 17 |
| 3.0 good | hep | January 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tyler643 | September 16th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tuoni | September 8th 16 |
| 3.0 good | smz | May 10th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Enzx | April 1st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | teeawgo | January 19th 16 |
| 3.5 great | alhric | January 17th 16 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Lingwe | September 13th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom R. EMERITUS | September 11th 15 |
| 1.0 awful | Wenzel | August 21st 15 |
| 3.0 good | manu8a | August 3rd 15 |
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| 2.5 average | theyam | April 25th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | ESKIN | April 5th 15 |
| 2.5 average | FVS | March 8th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Let | January 20th 15 |
| 3.0 good | mhart8 | January 10th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lagoped | October 11th 14 |
| 3.5 great | ariich | October 4th 14 |
| 2.5 average | ajc1956 | September 29th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Turnover | September 11th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Haunt | September 7th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Bidoof | September 3rd 14 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Chosen | July 17th 14 |
| 3.0 good | alpsi | May 25th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Jelzer | March 30th 14 |
| 3.0 good | JJOMan | March 26th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Faraudo | February 25th 14 |
| 1.5 very poor | Inferis | February 23rd 14 |
| 2.5 average | Andrew | February 5th 14 |
| 3.5 great | clavier EMERITUS | January 13th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | matzo | December 19th 13 |
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| 4.5 superb | smudo | October 23rd 13 |
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| 3.5 great | t1gxrs | September 20th 13 |
| 2.0 poor | Pndi | September 11th 13 |
| 3.5 great | fog | July 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | BrentEF | June 22nd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Madwx | May 15th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Schozzy | April 27th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | cgor17 | March 19th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oceania | March 17th 13 |
| 3.5 great | gp0942 | January 30th 13 |
| 3.0 good | pjr428 | December 16th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jakob | November 20th 12 |
| 2.5 average | fyffe | October 21st 12 |
| 3.5 great | JoshTh | October 9th 12 |
| 2.0 poor | doqtor | August 26th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | mdw11 | July 24th 12 |
| 3.0 good | hnled | July 19th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lucs99 | June 20th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Loois | June 13th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | scotto | June 10th 12 |
| 2.5 average | 9MgTar | May 4th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Viales | April 30th 12 |
| 3.5 great | tfmcmp | April 24th 12 |
| 3.5 great | iGuter | April 23rd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | vieky | April 9th 12 |
| 1.0 awful | Gavwah | April 7th 12 |
| 3.5 great | josh7 | April 5th 12 |
| 3.0 good | WooHa | April 4th 12 |
| 3.5 great | aerius | March 30th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Myles7 | March 26th 12 |
| 2.5 average | jday | March 25th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tegehe | March 19th 12 |
| 3.0 good | Stfk19 | March 19th 12 |
| 2.5 average | mttgry | March 15th 12 |
| 3.0 good | Lk09 | February 27th 12 |
| 3.0 good | sidjmt | February 18th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | nwagner | February 15th 12 |
| 2.0 poor | cvlts | February 11th 12 |
| 3.0 good | W477ZY | January 23rd 12 |
| 3.0 good | WBalls | January 18th 12 |
| 1.5 very poor | Eons | January 8th 12 |
| 2.5 average | mxbrady | December 25th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | JD13 | December 24th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | BrentF | December 14th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Dars301 | November 27th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | LRG | November 24th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | jbassp | November 14th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Janze | November 9th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Hens | November 1st 11 |
| 3.0 good | vivapo | October 27th 11 |
| 3.5 great | 00mee | October 14th 11 |
| 3.0 good | jorsh | September 21st 11 |
| 1.0 awful | Eek | September 21st 11 |
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| 4.5 superb | Othcar | September 3rd 11 |
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| 3.5 great | Rowdy | May 23rd 11 |
| 3.0 good | Rudy K. EMERITUS | May 20th 11 |
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