Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| PopMatters | favorable |
| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.0/10.0) |
| NME | (8/10) |
| Stylus Magazine | (B) |
| Allmusic | |
| Rolling Stone | |
Give Up was generally well received by music critics. LeMay gave it a rating of 8 out of 10, calling it "a pretty damned strong record, and one with enough transcendent moments to forgive it its few substandard tracks and ungodly lyrical blunders". Both LeMay and Pop Matters's Devon Powers commented on the "clichéd", "cringe-worthy" lyrics of "Sleeping In". Michaelangelo Matos of Rolling Stone said it was "a cuddly little new wave reverie", giving it 4 out of 5 stars. Phares said that whilst the album was good, it did not measure up to either Gibbard or Tamborello's main projects. Online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed Give Up at number 104 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.
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