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Vintage Burden is among the most beautiful, subtle, and moving records this band has ever made.
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Instead of exposing any weaknesses, the group has highlighted their strengths by stripping things back to their essentials for A Vintage Burden.
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A Vintage Burden’s embrace is still emotional, still heartbreaking, still sad, and at times still chilling, but somehow, it’s less of an exercise to wrap your arms around it.
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With the exception of the somewhat dull “Dormant Love,” I’m altogether satisfied.
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Given A Vintage Burden's relatively standard space-blues construction, there's sure to be those Charalambides fans who will miss the levitational scope of the group's more free-form transmissions.
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It is certainly their most accessible album in quite some time, with the exploratory impulse subsumed into the confines and comfort of song. If anything, this album almost sounds like the weary come-down after the trip’s strange and unsettling peak.
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Let it wash over you, let it slowly but surely catch your attention, and steadily let the music build its case for how engrossing it can be.
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Despite the chill of "Dormant Love," A Vintage Burden might just be the best summer LP you’ll hear this year--perfect timing.
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A Vintage Burden is well-executed, spare, and in the simplest terms, makes wonderful Sunday morning background music.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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TristramCAug 18, 2006I dunno, those involved here are competent enough but I kept waiting for this one to get off the ground. You're better of picking up Espers II.
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JeffKJun 3, 2006