Let's Bottle Bohemia
by The Thrills
  • Record Label: Virgin
  • Release Date: Sep 14, 2004
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Dot Music
    60
    By third song, "Faded Beauty Queens", the recipe is already stalling, and the harmonies begin to sound flimsy.
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    An older, wiser, more mature and more accomplished Thrills but -- to be honest -- the heart of 'Let's Bottle Bohemia' could quite easily have been made from the leftovers of 'So Much For The City.' [11 Sep 2004, p.54]
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  3. Pitchfork
    60
    Their forlorn, polished California pop is like the sprawling Valley suburbs: nice enough, if that's your sort of thing.
  5. Under The Radar
    60
    Not so much a staler rehash of So Much For The City [as] an exact rehash of So Much For The City. [#7]
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  6. Junkmedia
    60
    The songs are likable, but lack a core.
  7. The A.V. Club
    60
    It's trying so hard to impress that it comes off as pushy.
  8. Blender
    50
    A strained, washed-out, sluggish record. [Oct 2004, p.129]
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  9. Q Magazine
    40
    It sounds exactly the same as the first record... Another solid, unremarkable effort. [Oct 2004, p.116]
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  10. The Guardian
    40
    This album should really have been called Let's Battle Insomnia, in honour of its sedative properties.
  11. Rolling Stone
    40
    Its fakeness comes to the fore. [28 Oct 2004, p.99]
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  12. Delusions of Adequacy
    40
    The Thrills still have more musical verve than many other second-album victims, but too much of this album seems as if The Thrills have wearied of their own sunny musical dispositions.

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User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. PatrickO
    Feb 16, 2006
    10
    Excellent
  2. JohnR
    Nov 9, 2005
    9
    Very hard to understand what all the critics must have heard, listening to this album. It's basically pretty close to phenomenal. Very hard to understand what all the critics must have heard, listening to this album. It's basically pretty close to phenomenal. Spledid, accessible songwriting with brilliant arrangements, though the strings-parts are a bit too much now and then. Without a doubt one of my 2004 favourites.… Full Review »
  3. CP
    Oct 27, 2005
    1
    Embarassingly weak songwriting that makes me yearn for Bruce Willis's "The Return of Bruno." It's that bad.
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