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Aug 12, 2014Meteorites is a clarion call to all of their followers, from the Flaming Lips to Interpol, that Echo & The Bunnymen have finally come back to reclaim their rightful place back in front of the spotlight.
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Jun 2, 2014Youth and the group walk the line between grandiose and epic throughout, never falling on the wrong side even once.
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Jun 3, 2014Comfy isn’t always what you want, though. And while Meteorites walks that line, we can at least take comfort in the fact that McCulloch and Sergeant are still doing it, and doing it well.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014If You're a lapsed follower, this record will make you believe again. [Jul 2014, p.91]
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Jun 4, 2014Instead of moving forward, Meteorites just takes them back. Back to when they were good, sure, but sometimes that's not enough.
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Jun 3, 2014Producer Youth helps balloon the intensity skyhigh, making McCulloch the Bono of spider-web bangs and black regret.
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May 27, 2014As a whole, Meteorites fails to set the sky on fire.
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May 27, 2014All in all though, Meteorites is a decent, if hardly vital, album from one of this country’s true national treasures.
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May 27, 2014They’ve been slowing down for a while now, but here they feel nearly worn out.
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MojoMay 21, 2014The tune count is mainly healthy, with the super-exuberance of Is This A Breakdown, Grapes Upon The Vine's echoes of 1983's Porcupine, and a second-half pursuit of the epic culminating in the soaring, redemptive New Horizons. [Jun 2014, p.88]
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May 21, 2014It’s not until Meteorites broadens its scope a little that it begins to offer up genuine highlights.
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May 21, 2014Meteorites is still, on initial blush, like all those other albums from Evergreen onward, "the new album from," a reliable entry but not a jawdropper.
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UncutMay 21, 2014The promising flourishes of "Burn It Down" and "Explosions" give way to "Meteorites" and "Is This A Breakdown," mediocre indie rock plods. [Jun 2014, p.75]
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May 30, 2014Though the two men may feel that this is the most personal album yet, musically, Meteorites sounds more like Echo & the Bunnymen without its whimsy.
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Jun 23, 2014Meteorites is the sound of a once-great band bursting into flames on re-entry.
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Jun 5, 2014As with the lyrics, one of Meteorites’ main weaknesses is that it contains too many tunes that can be filed under humdrum.
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May 23, 2014For much of Meteorites, strings attempt to fill in the hole that was the band's characteristically dynamic, propulsive low-end, to mixed results.
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Jun 3, 2014Only a few tunes here--notably “Constantinople,” with brilliant Middle Eastern guitar by Sergeant--approach the energy of classic Echo tracks. Most are slow and labored with monotonously downbeat lyrics.
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May 29, 2014While it believes it’s a storm of Ocean Rain-esque majesty, Meteorites fizzles out like it’s just another shower.
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Positive: 9 out of 12
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Mixed: 2 out of 12
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Negative: 1 out of 12
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