Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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  • Without You I'm Nothing [Virgin, 1998] Neither
  • Black Market Music [Virgin, 2000]  
  • Meds [Astralwerks, 2006]  
  • Battle for the Sun [Vagrant, 2009] *

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Without You I'm Nothing [Virgin, 1998] Neither

Black Market Music [Virgin, 2000]
With encouragement from, of all people, Pavement, an angstmonger's voice gets political, a little ("Taste in Men," "Slave to the Wage")  

Meds [Astralwerks, 2006]
See: Lost in the Lonely Crowd.  

Battle for the Sun [Vagrant, 2009]
Articulating anxieties not necessarily their own since 1996 ("Bright Lights," "The Never-Ending Why"). *

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