• Record Label: Hefty
  • Release Date: Jan 25, 2005
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. A genre-bowing indie masterpiece as gorgeous as anything released since Sigur Rós’ ( ).
  2. The impeccably crafted Different Days is at its best when it exploits the vocal strengths of Anderson and Costa.
  3. The themes of isolation, solitude and general soul-crushing existence makes it their most blatantly honest work and helps further reinforce the notion that this is their most fully realized and beautiful release to date.
  4. Urb
    80
    The perfect soundtrack for a late Sunday night. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.96]
  5. The New York Times
    80
    Each song opens into a lush inner dream world. [31 Jan 2005]
  6. Their songs burst open upon inspection; you must first shrink to their size, but once you do, you'll probably want to stick around for awhile.
  7. "Different Days" manages to be sleepy without being lazy and sad without being depressing.
  8. Both Costa and Lindsay Anderson have an uncanny ability to evoke multiple emotions through their lyrics. The downside seems to be their lack of range; all the songs feel the same.
  9. Magnet
    70
    That Different Days is so listenable despite its flawed nature is testament to Costa and Anderson's wonderful songwriting and shrewd decisions. [Jan/Feb 2005]
  10. Filter
    66
    The vocals veer a bit too far into tunelessness at times, but the music is gorgeously majestic, yet deceptively simple and stark. [#14, p.100]
  11. Where their prettiness was once cloaked in a shroud of bashful melancholy, with [producer Joshua] Eustis on hand things get a little more grandstanding.
  12. Q Magazine
    60
    It bobbles along, slowly but gracefully. [Feb 2005, p.100]
  13. Rolling Stone
    60
    The lyrics? Unmemorable. But that leaves your mind free to wander the quiet spaces between the notes. [10 Feb 2005, p.84]
  14. Uncut
    40
    The mournful tone is seductive, but at times the femme melodrama teeters into All About Eve territory. [Feb 2005, p.83]

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