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Jun 7, 2012Newcombe has constructed his most level-headed and consistently engaging record since ...And This Is Our Music back in 2003.
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MojoJul 18, 2012The result is adventurous and totally mesmerising. [Jun 2012, p.84]
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MagnetMay 11, 2012Music to take drugs to. [No.87, p.52]
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May 9, 2012Aufheben's shining moments are the most daring ones, and are also surprisingly sweet.
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May 9, 2012Mainman Anton Newcombe is now sober, and here has made his best album since 2003's '…And This Is Our Music'.
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May 3, 2012Much like the Socialist commune they share a part of their name with, BJM retains the mysterious cult image that attracts a few but repels many.
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May 10, 2012With Aufheben, it seems as if Brian Jonestown Massacre is getting better again. And it's nice to hear.
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May 8, 2012Maybe at some points the eastern influences are more prominent, on tracks like 'Panic In Babylon', but on the whole it's classic BJM.
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May 7, 2012Aufheben may not be vintage BJM but it's still pretty groovy stuff.
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May 4, 2012A comforting return to the hazy psychedelia and laconic 1960s bohemia of prime BJM, only now with added eastern twinges.
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May 3, 2012With each effort, BJM continue a transcendence from their early days feigning the swagger of their namesake's band toward a more complex realization; Aufheben is certainly no different.
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May 3, 2012A valiant attempt to combine varying disciplines of Eastern music with neo-psychedelia, Aufheben is a pleasant listen.
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May 3, 2012Newcombe is a master at turning the minimal into maximal, layering myriad swirling textures into a dizzying head-rush of a tune (see: "Seven Kinds of Wonderful"), but crafty production only takes him so far.
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