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Nov 18, 2011Taken as pieces or as a whole, the album is easily the equal of anything their contemporaries have released and an exhilaratingly chilled-out listen from start to finish that will warm up even the longest winter night.
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Nov 18, 2011It's an album of quiet excellence, one that aims to soundtrack your most idle thoughts while romantically demanding your attention.
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Nov 18, 2011The ten songs here are a euphoric whirl of church choirs, lushly layered cymbals, poppy clap tracks, and heady psych rock, evoking peers like Tough Alliance and Tanlines.
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Nov 28, 2011An Album assembles all the loose threads from previous bursts of inspiration to sequence a scenic panorama to get lost into.
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MagnetNov 21, 2011As mesmerizingly Zen as Korallreven's dreamy, glazed gaze is, it's hard not to long for the band to shake itself free of its googly-eyed trance, if only for a moment or two. [#82, p.57]
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Nov 18, 2011Like many of the instrumentals on this record, a New Age gauze covers most of these productions. It may not be every listener's particular cup of tea, but An Album is a dazzling song suite for an autumnal release.
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Nov 23, 2011The dream-pop duo layers together featherweight electronics, '80s beats and island attitude-stirring them into a frothy blend indebted to both The Tough Alliance's harmonies and Air France's hazy atmospherics.
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Nov 18, 2011If you give the album the chance it deserves you will be rewarded by one of the strongest LPs you are likely to hear this year.
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Nov 18, 2011Their stuttering, airy synths would serve as an appropriate soundtrack to a nightclub in Heaven.
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Nov 23, 2011You may categorize An Album By Korallreven as background music. That's by no means a bad thing-if anything, such a distinction solidifies this album as an intense experience: a wintry escape to the wilderness with a slight detour to the dance floor along the way.