| All of these components collide to make music that rides the line between hard-core and alt-rock with force and an underlying sense of personal culpability. |
| The guitar work here is promising, with some alt-rock influences providing a welcome respite from the usual thirds-based harmonies. |
| Their dramatic alt-rock had more than a few echoes of The Bends and OK Computer. |
| The album pitches into the familiar anthemic alt-rock that has already carved the band their place in history. |
| Besides the rasping Cobain-like vocals any other trace of the alt-rock anthem of yesterday has all but faded. |
| I did have the dream that I might become some sort of alt-rock goddess in the States. |
