Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (85/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V Club | (A-) |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B+) |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.8/10) |
| Billboard | (favorable) |
| Uncut | |
| The Guardian | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Mojo | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| NME | (9/10) |
| PopMatters | |
| Drowned in Sound | (8/10) |
Third earned widespread critical acclaim, and was ranked as one of the best albums of 2008 by several publications. Alan Ranta of PopMatters gave the album a 9/10, saying "History will eventually see it rank on par with the rest of their legendary works".
Allmusic called the album "utterly riveting and endlessly absorbing" and said the music, defying conventions of the genre, "is genuinely, startlingly original."
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