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A lot of bands venture close to soft-rock territory and come out unscathed. Trembling Blue Stars aren't so lucky.
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While the music behind the lyrics doesn't exactly bristle with innovation, it's the best blend of acoustic and electronic instruments I've heard.
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Alive to Every Smile finds TBS swanning through a set of soft-pop numbers giddy with the misty misery of melancholy and coated with the softest frostings of studio icing-sugar.
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If Alive to Every Smile doesn’t indicate Wratten is ready to move on thematically, it does show him evolving musically.
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Alternative PressWratten's finest post-Field Mice LP. [Dec 2001, p.98]
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MagnetWratten makes the kind of albums most of us would record if the defection of a muse and lover still haunted us years later--and if we could write unabashedly pretty songs. [#52, p.109]
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No matter the players, Alive to Every Smile is so patently a Bob Wratten album that, honestly, it sounds a little tired.
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UncutOccasionally tentative songs and wonky arrangements mar them here. [Dec 2001, p.117]
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MojoListening to Bob Wratten is as necessary as a good cry. [Jan 2002, p.91]
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FrankBJun 12, 2005
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SharonNov 17, 2003One of my favourite albums ever. Because of Alive To Every Smile, i have bought practically everything ever recorded by Bob Wratten. Excellent!!