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  • Record Label: Partisan
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Folk
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Ambulance
You know sometimes you have to change Stare in the [?] If this is the [?] I knew the kind of life to live This is a call They all believe your... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Magnet
    Aug 11, 2016
    90
    The success of the Amazing in general--and Ambulance by proxy--is the band's uncanny ability to touch on a wealth of styles without flying any specific philosophical flag, thereby remaining unique in tone and execution. [No. 134, p.53]
  2. Aug 4, 2016
    80
    Ambulance manages to sound both mysterious and familiar at once.
  3. Uncut
    Aug 5, 2016
    80
    By using layers of shoegazey guitars and powerfully mic'd-up drums, they create soundscapes that combine Americana with English pastoralism. [Sep 2016, p.67]
  4. Jul 22, 2016
    74
    The record remains a close cousin of Picture You, and with its comparatively brief length, it’s hard not to hear it as an encore as much as it is a follow-up. Surely the group has earned a round of applause.
  5. Jul 25, 2016
    70
    The group has never sounded richer, fuller, or more confident in their own narcotic powers. Misery suits them.
  6. Jul 22, 2016
    70
    Most of Ambulance tends to cast a shadow on their most riotous tendencies, but there are still surprises to be found; the more sanguine Blair Dagger almost sounds out of place with its salacious tremolo strains, though it also highlights the band at their most playfully engaged.
  7. Jul 22, 2016
    60
    Ambulance finds the Amazing pushing forward, trying new angles at their established sound. But these later songs make the band seem uncomfortable in new, spare settings.

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