Love Hate And Then There's You
by The Von Bondies
Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Hartford Courant
    60
    As a spirited reintroduction, the album is by no means too little, but given the time the band has been away, it may be too late.
  2. PopMatters
    60
    Perhaps that’s a tad cruel, but to their credit, what the Von Bondies lack in originality, they make up for in style.
  3. Rolling Stone
    60
    These Detroit rockers emerge with an album that's pop-friendly but raucous enough to park in a Motor City garage.
  5. Alternative Press
    60
    Like a football running back, it's when the band put their heads down and sprint straight ahead that they score. [mar 2009, p.113]
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  6. Q Magazine
    60
    The new problem is a lack of texture: in aiming for big hooks and big bucks, they've thrown variety out the window. [Jun 2009, p.134]
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  7. Pitchfork
    58
    Where their earlier records thrived on the tension between Stollsteimer's gut-spilling confessions and the band's raucous, raw-powered attack, on Love, Hate and Then There's You, we get all the pleading, but without the violent, cathartic release.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    50
    Its latest album, Love Hate and Then There's You, is a stereotypical dilution of the Stooges/MC5 canon, there are a few unexpectedly tight tunes that hit as hard as, well, a sock in the eye.
  9. The New York Times
    50
    The riffs are tight, but not so fresh.
  10. New Musical Express (NME)
    50
    Perhaps it was the pressure of following breakthrough hit ‘C’mon C’mon’, or some serious Jack White payback voodoo, but now, where should have roared a gutsy, triumphant comeback squeaks a patchy, mediocre-in-places record.
  11. NOW Magazine
    40
    Love, Hate And Then There’s You isn’t entirely devoid of entertainment value--Stollsteimer’s misguided attempts to replicate the successful sound of the Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, the Strokes and other alt-rock radio staples at the time these songs were conceived turns out to be quite funny, however unintentional the humour.
  12. Mojo
    40
    Stollsteimer, it seems, is still in search of his own musical identity. [ Jun 2009, p.96]
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  13. Uncut
    40
    All round, an unsettling development. [Jun 2009, p.109]
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User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. JoeT
    Feb 7, 2009
    10
    GREAT Album!!! good pop music!!!
  2. johnnyq
    Feb 5, 2009
    0
    The band sucks now after two members left the band.
  3. [Anonymous]
    Feb 5, 2009
    0
    No respect for these guys. and plus its easy to give zeroes when im not getting paid to be interesting. also i wonder why they changed No respect for these guys. and plus its easy to give zeroes when im not getting paid to be interesting. also i wonder why they changed labels. and whats up with me not capatalizing. on CAPATALIZATION.… Full Review »
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