Outta Sight / Outta Mind
by The Datsuns
  • Record Label: V2
  • Release Date: Sep 14, 2004
Metascore
47

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 3 out of 14
  1. Q Magazine
    60
    Halfway through... it becomes a directionless mess. [Jul 2004, p.113]
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  2. The Guardian
    40
    Much of the time they sound like a 1973 youth club rock band.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    40
    Their preoccupation with '70s British metal finds them wandering dangerously into gobilin-and-ghouls prog-rock territory. [5 Jun 2004, p.54]
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  5. Alternative Press
    40
    Amount[s] to little more than a facsimile of their forefathers. [Nov 2004, p.149]
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  6. AllMusic
    40
    They seem like a garden-variety hard rock band, one that would have been generic and forgettable in 1974, and one that is generic and forgettable in 2004.
  7. PopMatters
    40
    Part of me likes that the Datsuns are 100% serious about doing their own thing, regardless of what the scene demands, but when their "thing" amounts to a heap of riffs leftover from the Carter administration, I can't get that excited.
  8. Pitchfork
    40
    Their caveman take on 70s nostalgia-- simultaneously misguided and entirely too obvious-- renders them mostly forgettable and entirely ineffectual.

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User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. MikeV.
    Feb 7, 2008
    10
    i don't understand why the datsuns get ratings like 40% if you would know anything about music you would understand that this band is i don't understand why the datsuns get ratings like 40% if you would know anything about music you would understand that this band is all about rockn' roll coming back to life!! rockn' roll isn't dead!! look at franz ferdinand they are dead! have you ever listened to their second album? I doubt it if i read your comment! but yeah i know everybody likes something else but the datsuns deserve better and should be appreciated more!!… Full Review »
  2. liamP-M
    Jan 6, 2008
    10
    The Datsuns are a band who came too late. If this album had been released in the 90's, the Datsuns would've been HUGE! This album The Datsuns are a band who came too late. If this album had been released in the 90's, the Datsuns would've been HUGE! This album is brilliant messy rock, but people don't want that anymore, and while that's sad, all it should mean is that the people who hate rock shouldn't review it.… Full Review »
  3. MoT
    Sep 8, 2005
    10
    Agree with Andrew R. Loved the first album and this one just as much.
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