- Record Label: United Interests
- Release Date: Mar 4, 2008
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This, though, is the kind of nice, safe album a listener wants to like badly, but whose flaws ultimately leave one fumbling for the skip button on repeat listens.
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Picture is an album’s worth of universal feelings spoiled by his compulsion to present them as sordid or literary, to make them clever or allusive or needlessly alliterative
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Picture, the more ambitious of the pair, simply sounds unfocused, overly concerned with effects and production--with moments and sounds--than with songs or overall shape.
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Under The RadarElliott's softly vulnerable voice gives everything a modest approachability. [Spring 2008, p.87]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Negative: 1 out of 6
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Aug 8, 2012
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PAApr 4, 2008This is the best album of the year so far.