Critical Response
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Blender | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| Exclaim! | (favorable) |
| IGN | 8.9/10 |
| Kerrang! | (3/5) |
| NME | |
| Robert Christgau | C+ |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Stylus | C+ |
| Slant Magazine | |
| Alternative Press | |
Decemberunderground received generally positive reviews. The review aggregator Metacritic awarded the album a 72 out of 100, based on 15 reviews.
Entertainment Weekly awarded the album a 'B+,' and called it "the most melodically acute distillation of that style yet," unlike their previous studio album Sing the Sorrow, which they awarded a negative 'D.' Allmusic awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars, saying the "core of AFI's sound never strays too far from what listeners have grown to love about them in the first place."
Rolling Stone awarded the album 3 out of 5 stars, one less star than their review of Sing the Sorrow, and claimed that "something isn't right in the world of AFI," because of their pop-rock musical structure "that would be at home on the soundtrack to the next Spider-Man movie".
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