Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 64/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Billboard | |
| Blender | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| The Guardian | |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork | 3.4/10 |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| Uncut | |
The album received mixed reviews from many critics. However there were mostly positive reviews from the United Kingdom in particular, with music publications such as Q and NME giving the album 4/5 stars and 7/10 respectively. Q had Vision Valley at number 69 in their Albums of 2006 Poll, dubbing the songs "superior grunge anthems". Entertainment Weekly gave the album a positive review and wrote " feral, melodic garage punk is refreshing".
In their negative review, Pitchfork wrote "what the Vines offer on their third album is permutations and refinements on what they've been doing since whenever. On the stupid loud songs, Craig Nicholls sounds like a bored Kurt Cobain. On the stupid slow songs, Craig Nicholls sounds like a bored Liam Gallagher (which is pretty impressive, given Gallagher's innate inertia)", though that "there's nothing musically offputting about this record, unless relentless mediocrity in the three-chord arts is a capital crime." Slant Magazine wrote "The Vines ultimately come off as nothing more than a proficient Nirvana cover band, lacking a perspective of their own or a voice that really demands attention." PopMatters wrote "The Vines are polished so shiny by Capitol on their new record you can see yourself in the reflective, glossy black of the CD booklet" and called the album "a straight-ahead album of short, disposable garage-rock." Drowned in Sound wrote "It is rare to stumble across a record that passes through the air as plainly and unobtrusively as this."
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