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  • Summary: This is the fourth album for the Minnesota punk band.
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  1. All that needs to be said is that C I V I L W A R was well worth the wait.
  2. It's their most glossy, most consistent, most calm, and surprisingly, their most socially relevant album, despite their approach toward middle age on a teen-oriented punk playground.
  3. The album is mostly interchangeable with its predecessors, right down to the silly samples that bookend the songs.
  4. Civil War shows a band that's matured in some typical ways-- as if anyone was clamoring for "broadened perspective" from these guys-- and some unexpected and not unwelcome ones.
  5. Alternative Press
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    While the album has bright spots, overall it feels a bit dull and without the spark that made 1998's "Midwestern Songs Of The Americas" so fresh and exciting. [Dec 2008, p.132]
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