I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Crime in Stereo album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Alternative Press	[2]
Alter the Press!	[3]
Inked	(favorable)[4]
Pastepunk	(favorable)[5]
Redefine	(somewhat favorable)[6]
review rinse repeat	[7]
Rock Sound	[8]
ThePunkSite.com	[9]
TMTM	(9.4/10)[10]
Strange Glue	[11]
Under The Gun Review	[12]

The record received a review of 4.5/5 in the March 2010 issue of Alternative Press magazine. The magazine described it as an "equally ambitious, unpredictable follow-up..." to their third release ...Is Dead.

Exclaim! named "I Was Trying to Describe You To Someone" as the No. 5 Punk Album of 2010.^[13]

1. "Queue Moderns" - 1:59
2. "Drugwolf" - 3:53
3. "Exit Halo" - 5:45
4. "Not Dead" - 3:21
5. "Odalisque" - 3:45
6. "Young" - 3:50
7. "Type One" - 3:52
8. "Republica" - 4:13
9. "I Am Everything I Am Not" - 3:57
10. "Dark Island City" - 2:23
11. "I Cannot Answer You Tonight" - 3:05