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30 Year Low Image
Metascore
78

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  • Summary: This is the final album with both Tim Bracy and Shannon McArdle in the group, in light of their divorce.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. The disc succeeds by merging a unity of sounds with a complex variety of emotions.
  2. The main album is sharp and vitriolic and honest, with hardly a place to take a breath.
  3. The Mendoza Line have created an album that has had many talking, received the most recognition of their career, and will spawn repeat play on the CD players of many.
  4. Like the best divorce albums, it offers sadness, pathos, and the electric thrill of great music forged in the crucible of pain.
  5. Spin
    70
    For a band named after a benchmark of mediocrity, it's fitting that they bow out consumed by matters so ordinary. [Sep 2007, p.134]
  6. Their caustic, candid wit--especially in the face of such misery--keeps 30 Year Low from sounding too self-indulgent or self-pitying.
  7. While the rest of the album flirts with the shivering, uncomfortable mood found on 'Since I Came,' it infrequently equals it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. DavidA.
    Sep 5, 2007
    7
    Not as good as their more recent releases (fortune etc) but a decent outing. Will Sheff's presence makes it a little more intriguing. I Not as good as their more recent releases (fortune etc) but a decent outing. Will Sheff's presence makes it a little more intriguing. I am sorry to see this band disband, they produced some great music over the last decade, but this is not really the same as that great stuff. Expand