Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. 50
    This stuff is too cute for its own damn good.
  2. France's Tahiti 80 seem so enamoured with their musical idols that they can barely voice a personal touch of their own.
  3. 60
    There's some buzzing and belling on "Puzzle," some crimped cracking that doubles as new wave, but for the most part, it's California dreaming at its dumbest.
  4. This French quartet specializes in bubbly AM indie-pop that gives it more the feel of a male-fronted version of the Cardigans.
  5. Alternative Press
    60
    It all combines for an enjoyable listen... provided you block out the lyrics. [#146, p.102]
  6. Songs so odd and cheekily gleeful they could almost be Mentos jingles.
  7. Thankfully, this is more absurd than mawkish, made even better by the fact that Tahiti 80 are French people singing in English, and therefore do not always make sense.
  8. Q Magazine
    60
    Sounds something like a male-fronted Cardigans... [Aug 2001, p.141]
  9. 70
    Puzzle gels the Kinks/Beatles sound the group obviously adores with something less dusty. Think the Sea and Cake playing with the Stone Roses. Or a chartier Belle and Sebastian.
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  1. martinas
    Oct 20, 2002
    9
    it is enjoying and basta.