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Tiny Mix Tapes

The ease of the instrumentation and the hushed vocals do their part to loosen you up as the music whisks you away to the innocence of childhood and teenage dreams that have never left the recesses of your mind.

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Filter

Despite all of the concentrated production, these mellow, easy-going songs still sound completely effortless. [#15, p.97]

cokemachineglow

Despite being monstrously homogenous and boring, The Fallen Leaf Pages is too much of a melodic accomplishment to dismiss.

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Urb

Putnam's longing voice and rusty guitar strum easily envisions a rustic dwelling, yet their studio strengths reveal a Pink Floyd fetish. [Jun 2005, p.85]

Magnet

It's drowsy, but drowsy with one cup of coffee in it. [#68, p.108]

Splendid

The songs on Fallen Leaf Pages are all played at roughly the same glacial pace and share a very mellow, thoughtful and regret-filled vibe. Some listeners will find them repetitive, even tedious.

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Mojo

Not their masterpiece, but a sizeable effort nonetheless. [Apr 2006, p.100]

Pitchfork

Their penchant to recreate the music they love leaves little room for innovation, and ultimately the album has the freshness of an unearthed time capsule.

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PopMatters

The Fallen Leaf Pages is the group's fourth record, and it sounds a lot like their third record, which was quite similar to the second one, which had a striking resemblance to the first one.

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Dusted Magazine

The Fallen Leaf Pages settles comfortably into the band's canon, delivering no surprises, no gimmicks, no gags, no quirks and no affectations.

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Paste Magazine

Finds them doing pretty much what they've always done (hardly bad news). [#16, p.149]

Junkmedia

The Radar Brothers have been called "pastoral," "wandering" and "spacey." Their latest, The Fallen Leaf Pages, adds nothing new to this mix of descriptors.

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All Music Guide

The Fallen Leaf Pages is the kind of record that holds no surprises or excitement, the kind that sounds over before it reaches the halfway point.

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Uncut

Their drowsy lullabies and minor-key melodies are now so commonplace... that much of it seems unremarkable. [Dec 2005, p.109]

BBC collective

Stately, midtempo tunes whose immaculate production belies the darkness at their core.

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Drowned In Sound

This isn’t a half-formed album as such, just that it’s statued unchanging tempo and unvarying instrumentation leave potential developments lying by the roadside.

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Stylus Magazine

The Fallen Leaf Pages starts strong and tails off, but even that would be more forgivable if Putnam’s writing was as distinctive as it used to be.

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Prefix Magazine

Put simply, this music is slow, the same slow soggy tempo the whole way through.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

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jeremy c gave it a9:
I agree with the last comments! Try this album if you like Grandaddy, Radiohead, The Flaming lips and so on...!

Katie R gave it a10:
This album is more interesting every time I listen to it. I love it!

Wayne B gave it a9:
Another solid release from the most unhearlded L.A. band (with exception to Acetone, R.I.P.) over the past dozen years ! Buy this record and see what you've been missing...Those who have followed this band already agree!

Gerard gave it a10:
This album is vastly underrated. It'll easily fit in my top ten. It's an examination of spiritual redemption during these trying times - very deep, very beautiful, breathtaking at times, and the best work the Radar Bros. have ever done. It's the most spiritually enlightening album since Sufjan's Seven Swans. I am grateful to be a human alive to hear this masterwork.

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