End of Love (album)

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End of Love
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Studio album by
Released2005
Genre indie/alt-country
Label spinART
Clem Snide chronology
A Beautiful EP
(2004)
End of Love
(2005)
Suburban Field Recordings: Volume One
(2005)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly (favorable) [3]
Paste (moderately favorable) [4]
Pitchfork Media (6.7/10) [5]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Robert Christgau A− [7]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]

End of Love is the fifth full-length album by indie rock band Clem Snide. The album includes longtime live staple "Weird", as well as "Made for TV Movie", a song about Lucille Ball which includes a duet between lead singer Eef Barzelay and the daughter of one of the album's guest musicians.

Track listing

  1. "End of Love"
  2. "Collapse"
  3. "Fill Me With Your Light"
  4. "The Sound of German Hip Hop"
  5. "Tiny European Cars"
  6. "Jews For Jesus Blues"
  7. "God Answers Back"
  8. "Something Beautiful"
  9. "Made For TV Movie"
  10. "When We Become"
  11. "Weird"

The European limited edition release included the following bonus tracks:

  1. "The Ballad of David Icke"
  2. "South American Lullaby"
  3. "The Trick"
  4. "Tiny European Cars" (KEXP Live Radio Session)
  5. "Collapse" (KEXP Live Radio Session)

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References

  1. End of Love Reviews
  2. End of Love at AllMusic
  3. Ely, Suzanne (2005-02-21). "End of Love". EW.com. Retrieved 2017-09-08.
  4. Paste review
  5. Pitchfork Media review
  6. PopMatters review
  7. Village Voice review
  8. "Clem Snide". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2009-02-13.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)