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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic65/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Gigwise.com[3]
musicOMH(positive)[4]
Pitchfork Media(4.1/10)[5]
PopMatters(6/10)[6]
Slant Magazine[7]

The Tourniquet is Magnet's third album, first released in Norway on May 30, 2005 where it debuted on the album chart at #2. The album is named after the drink "The Tourniquet," which Even sampled "in a Singapore airport bar, en route back from Los Angeles after recording there."[8] There were two singles released from the album: "Hold On" in August 2005, and "Fall at Your Feet" in December 2005. The song "Believe" was scheduled to be the third single but was canceled. The American edition of the album includes the song "This Bird Can Never Fly" as a bonus track. The song originally appeared as the B-side to "Fall at Your Feet."

Track listing

  1. "Hold On" – 5:00
  2. "Duracellia" – 4:01
  3. "The Pacemaker" – 5:06
  4. "Believe" – 3:37
  5. "All You Ask" – 4:07
  6. "Deadlock" – 4:04
  7. "Fall at Your Feet" – 3:27
  8. "Blow by Blow" – 3:59
  9. "Miss Her So" – 3:41
  10. "Jaws" – 3:34
US-only bonus track
  1. "This Bird Can Never Fly" – 3:16

Singles

  • "Hold On" (August 15, 2005)
  • "Fall at Your Feet" (December 5, 2005)

Norwegian reviews

References

  1. ^ "The Tourniquet by Magnet". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Gigwise.com review
  4. ^ musicOMH review
  5. ^ "Magnet: The Tourniquet Album Review - Pitchfork". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Magnet: The Tourniquet". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  7. ^ "Slant Magazine". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. ^ "MIC". Retrieved 19 September 2016.