Leave Your Name
by Statistics
Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Almost Cool
    60
    Leave Your Name is 11 tracks and only 28 minutes long, about half of which feels like noodling.
  2. Alternative Press
    40
    [Dalley] repeatedly dilutes Leave Your Name with empty atmospheric exercises in barely-there vocals and shimmery keys. [Feb 2004, p.80]
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  3. Delusions of Adequacy
    90
    A crisp, clean, and undeniably beautiful work.
  5. Drowned In Sound
    70
    This is one of the greatest rock epics to drop through our door in a long while.
  6. Logo
    80
    Often you’re left amazed at the fact that this is the work of just one man.
  7. Neumu.net
    90
    [He's] invented a loud and severely impassioned polished rock sound.
  8. Pitchfork
    40
    Dalley possesses neither heart nor soul as a lead vocalist, and his milk-warm emotional outpouring of tiresome, overwrought subject matter could get lost in a crowd of two.
  9. PopMatters
    80
    This new voice from Omaha has asserted himself as sophisticated and smart.
  10. Rolling Stone
    60
    Statistics come on like a more abstract, art-damaged version of the Cure.
  11. Spin
    75
    All over the map. [Feb 2004, p.104]
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  12. Splendid
    50
    Statistics... come off like an emo version of Coldplay.
  13. Tiny Mix Tapes
    40
    This album has been done before and lacks the originality or quality of songwriting to merit repeated listens or set it apart from the scores of others playing this type of music.

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User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. brendang
    Dec 10, 2006
    9
    a bold and tasteful journey in different direction from mainstream pop - very satisfying to listen to with it's unresolving progressions a bold and tasteful journey in different direction from mainstream pop - very satisfying to listen to with it's unresolving progressions and flare of individuality… Full Review »
  2. lindseyw
    Jan 16, 2005
    8
    YEP
  3. matt
    Feb 1, 2004
    10
    i saw them live and they are really great. this new album is a big step up.
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