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It's profoundly self-serious, expertly workmanlike, occasionally transcendent, but lacking that childlike volatility, that glorious willingness to look and sound ridiculous. It's rare that so much nonetheless leaves you wanting more.
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The Suburbs offers several observations comparable to the ones above but fails to combine them with a greater mixture of moods and topics.
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It would help if the songs were better, but with all the up-and-down scales and chirp-chirp-chirpiness, the American Express commercial gradually gives way to a Riverdance special on pay-per-view.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 732 out of 792
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Mixed: 28 out of 792
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Negative: 32 out of 792
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Aug 13, 2010
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Aug 11, 2010
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Aug 13, 2010