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TopTenREVIEWS presents the reviews for Lost and Safe

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Lost and Safe

by Books

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    1,527
  • 2000's
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    156
  • 2005
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    33
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating: 3.2432 Lost and Safe is ranked overall as 3.2432 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.3008 Lost and Safe has an avg. critic score of 3.3008 out of 4 stars

Lost and Safe Rank 4 Reviews

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Excellent
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Very Good
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Good
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Fair
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Junkmedia
Although Lost and Safe would be a crowning achievement for any band, The Books show no sign of running out of beautiful musical ideas to convey. ...more
Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
But though this may be pretension, it's also delight, strange and humorous verbally and aurally. ...more
Almost Cool
There are times where the release feels like a transitional effort, yet it also contains some of the best songs that they've ever done. ...more
PrefixMag
The addition of vocals may initially turn off some, but in time the new style melds with the old, much in the same way that what has come before sits comfortably next to what is yet to come throughout this forty-two minute album. ...more
PrefixMag
Three albums in, are we finally ready to define the Books? Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong have already created two of the most essential records of the decade: 2002's Thought for Food , which established their signature combination of ...more

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Almost Cool
I remember reading a review a couple years ago that said Thought For Food by The Books was simply an album that had received too much hype and it wouldn't hold up a year or two down the road. I'll be the first to admit that I thought it was ...more
Drowned In Sound
I remember reading a review a couple years ago that said Thought For Food by The Books was simply an album that had received too much hype and it wouldn't hold up a year or two down the road. I'll be the first to admit that I thought it was simply ...more
All Music Guide
From the songwriting to the production to the performance, the whole package that the Books present with Lost and Safe works wonderfully and makes for a very rewarding listen. ...more
Stylus Magazine
The sample-heavy music of The Books provides post-modernists ample thought for food, casual listeners something to giggle at, and those in between something to marvel over. In the group’s past two efforts, the sample has been of the ...more
Tiny Mix Tapes.com
The thing I love most about the Books is their ability to take the most mundane, trivial observations and recontexualize them into something more memorable, if not more meaningful. Exemplified in their first two releases, The Books took advantage ...more

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