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Time To Die
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 22 critic reviews
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Album Info
Label: Frenchkiss
Release Date: 15 September 2009
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Indie
Summary
The third album for the rock band was produced by Phil Ek.
Also By This Artist: The Visiter
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Paste Magazine
With the drums and guitar so busy in the mix of almost every song, Keaton Snyder’s amped-up vibes are an inspired addition, their subtle atmospheric effects put to careful use by producer Phil Ek.
Read Full Review >Delusions of Adequacy
Time to Die reveals a band that is continuing to grow with scintillating results. Luckily for us, no one’s sitting in the backseat here.
Read Full Review >Slant Magazine
The hurtling pace the Dodos maintain and the complexity they manage to fill into these tight spaces is fascinating, at times amazing, fitfully matching complexity with speed.
Read Full Review >The New York Times
Perhaps the idea was to make the Dodos’ introspection more overt, or to cushion the songs’ cryptic reflections on breakups, commercialism, mortality and global warming. The intricacies do come through. But these songs will sound better after they’ve been roughed up onstage.
Read Full Review >Tiny Mix Tapes
The key to The Dodos isn’t their lyrics, but their melodies. And on Time to Die, they’re strong and sufficient.
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
Time to Die by itself isn’t a bad album, necessarily, but it’s not even close to the same level as Visiter and what made Dodos different to begin with. I hope that on their fourth album, these guys return to their roots.
Read Full Review >Sputnikmusic
Time To Die has its heart in the right place, but the product is not as nearly lovable.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
'Two Medicines' also shows off what the new, musically open Dodos can do, but until the vocals come into sync, an album-length high-water mark will remain elusive.
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
Time to Die doesn’t seem to strive for anything, so it settles into being a pleasant little pop record, boring and bereft of character.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
It seems silly to declare Time To Die too well put together, but it's not always the shapest knife that gets the most use. [Oct 2009, p.110]
Q Magazine
If they tend toward the opaque, a soothing vibraphone or twinkling guitar arpeggio is never too far away. [Oct 2009, p.108]
All Music Guide
Time to Die is far from a bad album, but unpredictability still suits the Dodos better than trying to fit into a more recognizable indie rock mold.
Read Full Review >The Guardian
Like a lot of albums produced by Phil Ek (by the Shins, for instance, and Fleet Foxes), you're impressed, but don't necessarily warm to it.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
What we are given this time round is a rather boring queue of unmemorable songs.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
For the moment they have tightened the experimental purse strings, offering a less rewarding batch of songs than they’re capable of creating.
Read Full Review >Under The Radar
Long's amazing guitar work, evident since his solo album, also does it best to break through, but in the end, can't. [Fall 2009, p.62]
New Musical Express
Mostly, though, The Dodos’ little quirks--the lack of bass, the blustery drumming, the lyrics that threaten to say something profound but never do--irritate rather than intrigue.
Read Full Review >No Ripcord
The band seems to have decided musical chops and precision production are more important than ideas, turning Time to Die into a startlingly streamlined affair that passes without leaving much of a mark.
Read Full Review >Mojo
The Afro-ising influence of Vampire Weekend on Precisely The Dodos' musical sector leaves them sounding emblematic only of early-Noughties blowsiness--as passe as their name suggests. [Oct 2009, p.108]
PopMatters
Time to Die will be filler for most people, a stopgap, a passing interest, at best a stepping stone.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
