Traps

Critic Score
Based on 11 reviews
2012 Ratings: #998 / 1141
User Score
Based on 4 ratings
June 12, 2012 / Release Date
LP / Format
Sub Pop / Label
Indie Pop / Genre
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Critic Reviews

83
A.V. Club

Jaill’s nice-guy indie rock coupled with more than a tinge of despair gives the sad and jilted a batch of stealthy summer jams to call their own.

68
Pitchfork

The result is idiosyncratic pop-rock appealing to geeky outsiders and scene lifers that's perennially in short supply

50
PopMatters

Traps is definitely worth a listen, but it’s clear that the band can do much better.

50
The 405

There's little to elevate Traps above the merely ordinary, it's all a little too generic, a little too samey.

20
Tiny Mix Tapes

While Traps’ metaphoric crimes aren’t as extreme as its press, the album runs itself amok with clichés and phrases that try to come off as “smart” or “clever” but generally find themselves coming off as neither.

Dopeski
80

Super underrated. Has some really memorable jams, especially the latter half of the album.

StarsulJon
90

I don't know what massive crack this little gem fell through - but either we all need to go check it out, or go get our collective ears checked. The hooks are so memorable, there's a lot of fun play within the songwriting and lyricism and a rowdy rawk vibe that makes me want to go kick a longboard down the boulevard while ripping up a photograph of my ex girlfriend. And the year it came out, I'm pretty sure I listened to it nonstop while doing something quite similar to that. Yes its a bit ... read more

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Track List

  1. Waste a Lot of Things 
  2. Everyone's a Bitch 
  3. Perfect Ten 
  4. Horrible Things (Make Pretty Songs) 
  5. I'm Home 
  6. House With Haunting
  7. Madness 
  8. Million Times 
  9. Ten Teardrops 
  10. While You Reload 
  11. Stone Froze Mascot
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