Release & Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B) |
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| Pitchfork Media | (8.5/10) |
| Robert Christgau | B+ |
| Piero Scaruffi | |
The Argument was released by Dischord Records on October 16, 2001, along with their EP, Furniture + 2, almost 4 years after the release of End Hits. The album was met with critical and commercial success entering the Billboard charts and selling 174,000 copies in its first week of release. Arion Berger of Rolling Stone called it "bracing" and "intellectual" and Chris True of AllMusic referred to the album as "ear-shattering and spine-tingling at once" stating that, "the band has raised the bar for themselves and others once again." He also noted that the album had "touched on strange new territory." Overall critical response to The Argument was very positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 87, based on 30 reviews.
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