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There Is No Enemy

Built to Spill

There Is No Enemy

Seventh studio album from the long-serving Idaho indie rock act

ADM rating[?]

7.0

Label
Warner
UK Release date
06/10/2009
  1. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    ...has been creating thrilling, visceral music — and most especially guitar solos — for 20 years now, and there is a slight sense of the midlife crisis about the band’s eighth album
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  2. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    It’s a Built To Spill record so, essentially, you know what you’re gonna get even before you hear it: guitar hero-based indie rock with Doug Martsch occasionally waxing philosophical
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  3. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A perfect reminder of this crudely underrated band
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  4. 8.0 |   NME

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  5. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    The end result is easily the best Built to Spill album of the decade - an improbable late-career reawakening and heartening evidence that becoming dependable doesn't mean having to settle for being predictable.
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  6. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    There Is No Enemy is not a return to form. It’s a re-imagining of a band’s distinct and timeless sound.
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  7. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    Their sonic history courses through the album’s veins and the band feels once again alive, just not very fresh
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  8. 7.0 |   The Fly

    The renewed emphasis on harmonic and melodic intricacy makes it more beautiful and energetic than bands half BTS’ age
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  9. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    One of Built To Spill's tightest, least sprawling works - the looseness of its predecessor, 2006's You In Reverse, isn't in evidence here
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  10. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    A band that define the notion of cult status. Time for the cult to finally go overground
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  11. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  12. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  13. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only


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