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- Summary: This is the debut album for the Long Beach, California-based rock band led by Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg, who also goes by the name Avi Buffalo.
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Top Track
| What s In It For? | |
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| I walked in on a plan to dissolve all of your wishes But I couldn't help your mouth which I missed by two inches Maybe I thought that you and I could... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 19
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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"What's in it for me?" Zahner-Isenberg sings with a piercing squeak in the chorus of the album's gooiest pop song. He honestly doesn't know, and that's what makes Avi Buffalo such an affecting listen.
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Continue to muse, and this strange, wonderfully unexpected work of art becomes one of the most mature (and stirring) narratives on intimacy, fidelity, and hesitant honesty heard in a long while.
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The band comes together neatly, covering a range that encompasses stripped-down recordings and wider-canvas anthems. Avi Buffalo make songs that, at their best, remain lodged in one's head for days.
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MojoMrs. Buffalo's boy's not one of the herd: weird, but kind of wonderful. [May 2010, p. 97]
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Avi Buffalo have every reason to be sure of themselves; this sneakily complex, unsappily sentimental, thoughtfully naive debut is a very early success.
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It's Avi Buffalo's lyrical content, though, that ends up giving away the band's level of maturity, for better and worse.
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Like the elder statesmen, the teenage California quartet offer skewed good-time indie pop that won't change your life but will sound fantastic blasted from a front porch on a summer day.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Jul 12, 2012
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Nov 22, 2010
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