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- Summary: The debut album for the band led by ex-Secret Machines member Benjamin Curtis.
- Record Label: Ghostly International
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 23
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Mixed: 8 out of 23
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Negative: 1 out of 23
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What pushes these songs past mere worship involves cunning collisions of robust rhythm, caressing noise, and heavenly melody, with each element equally crucial. Good shoegaze/dream-pop bands mastered one of them; the most exceptional of the heap, like this group, had all three down.
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This is a lesson in tender restraint you won't want to miss.
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Alpinisms is an undoubtedly singular album, setting the bar quite high for this burgeoning trio.
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Alpinisms could have used a few more of those moments, when the sounds overtake each other and induce a sense of blissful surrender.
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While impeccably arranged and charmingly sung, much of the album blurs together into a haze of boilerplate ambience with exotic titles.
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Like the band members themselves, Alpinisms is full of promise and obvious talent but would benefit from a more clearly defined direction.
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With a clearer eye to the cultures whose stereotypes they’re furthering, the Bells could have made a provocative connection between the European forms they’re comfortable with and any number of traditional Middle Eastern and Indian instruments and forms they’re interested in but not serious about.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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ScottTNov 11, 2008Great album!!!
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BrendanS.Nov 11, 2008
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seanm.Feb 5, 2009
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Oct 2, 2011School of Seven Bellsâ
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