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Metacritic Reviews
All Music Guide Info and Review

Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Amazon.com (USA) - The Best of the Decade in Music... So Far (2006) No Order
CokeMachineGlow (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2010) 42
Cokemachineglow.com (Canada) - The 60 Best Albums of 2000-2004 (2005) No Order
Consequence of Sound (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 21
HARP (USA) - The 50 Most Essential Albums Since 2001 (2006) 25
Kitsap Sun (USA) - Top 101 Albums of the 2000s (2010) 16
Kitsap Sun (USA) - Top 200 Albums of the Last 40 Years (2005) 149
LostAtSea (USA) - Top 50 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 9
Music Underwater (USA) - Top 100 Albums 1990-2003 (2004) 67
Paste (USA) - Top 50 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 24
Pitchfork (USA) - The 100 Best Albums of 2000-2004 (2005) 47
Pitchfork (USA) - Top 200 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 46
Slant (USA) - Top 250 Albums of the 2000s (2010) 91
Stylus Decade (USA) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2010) 53
The Onion A.V. Club (USA) - Top 50 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 17
Treble (USA) - Top 150 Albums of the 2000s (2010) 51
Under the Radar (USA) - Top 200 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 43
Drowned in Sound (UK) - The Top 66 Albums of 2000-2005 (2006) 7
NME (UK) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 75
Rock's Back Pages (UK) - Top 176 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 117.5
The Sun (UK) - Top 40 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 32
Uncut (UK) - Top 150 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 113
Adresseavisen (Norway) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 33
Digg (Belgium) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 46
OOR (Netherlands) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 17
Hervé Bourhis (France) - 555 Records (2007) No Order
Mondosonoro (Spain) - Top 50 International Albums of the 2000s (2009) 15
Kalporz (Italy) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 11
MusicServer (Czech Republic) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2009) 95
Screenagers (Poland) - The 50 Best Albums from 2000-2004 (2004) 44
Screenagers (Poland) - Top 100 Albums of the 2000s (2010) 80
Ratings
All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 4 Stars
Robert Christgau (USA) - Consumer Guide Album Grade A-
Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 2004) 4.5 Stars
Metacritic (Metascore 0-100, Weighted Average of Reviews from USA and UK) 88
Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) 6
End of Year Lists
Amazon.com (USA) - Albums of the Year 2
Billboard (USA) - Albums of the Year 6
Eye Weekly Canadian Critics Poll - Albums of the Year 11
Free Williamsburg (USA) - Albums of the Year 16
Ink Blot (USA) - Albums of the Year 1
LostAtSea (USA) - Albums of the Year 3
Neumu (USA) - Albums of the Year 8
Pitchfork (USA) - Albums of the Year 7
PopMatters (USA) - Albums of the Year 3
Prefix (USA) - Albums of the Year 5
Rolling Stone (USA) - Albums of the Year No Order
Stylus (USA) - Albums of the Year 3
The Badger Herald (USA) - Albums of the Year No Order
Village Voice (USA) - Albums of the Year 6
Washington City Paper (USA) - Albums of the Year 6
woxy.com (USA) - Albums of the Year 78
Mojo (UK) - Albums of the Year 7
New Musical Express (UK) - Albums of the Year 47
No Ripcord (UK) - Albums of the Year 9
Planet Sound (UK) - Albums of the Year 4
Rough Trade (UK) - Albums of the Year 33
Uncut (UK) - Albums of the Year 39
Drowned in Sound (UK) - Albums of the Year 6
Dagsavisen (Norway) - Albums of the Year 18
Rockmusica (Finland) - Albums of the Year 16
HUMO (Belgium) - Albums of the Year 12
Heaven (Netherlands) - Albums of the Year 8
OOR (Netherlands) - Albums of the Year 3
Musik Express/Sounds (Germany) - Albums of the Year 6
Spex (Germany) - Albums of the Year 48
Visions (Germany) - Albums of the Year 9
Magic (France) - Albums of the Year 2
Popnews (France) - Albums of the Year 3
DNMusica (Portugal) - Albums of the Year 7
GO-MAG (Spain) - Albums of the Year 6
Mondo Sonoro (Spain) - Albums of the Year 16
Rockzone (Spain) - Albums of the Year 38
The Movement (New Zealand) - Albums of the Year 2
Screenagers (Poland) - Albums of the Year 12
Pure Pop (Mexico) - Albums of the Year 4


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