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- Summary: This is the third studio album for the Toronto collective headed by Joel Gibb.
- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 15 out of 21
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Mixed: 6 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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The band's fourth album Awoo keeps the lyrical restraint, but restores some of the energy of The Hidden Cameras' early work, in more of a rock 'n' roll vein.
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This is by far their most accessible and cohesive record yet, and despite a couple of well-meaning but ultimately derivative hiccups in its second half, Awoo should bring a much larger audience into the fold.
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UrbA sometimes abrupt, hard-to-pin-down voyage with fun surprises and plot twists. [Sep 2006, p.131]
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Rather than winning over new converts, AWOO’s main achievement might be to delineate, skilfully but inescapably, the outer boundaries of its creators’ artistic reach.
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Q MagazineTightly controlled melodic songs reminiscent of R.E.M. or The Velvet Underground. [Oct 2006, p.120]
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The album is more polished and accessible than the band's previous work and other childlike plinky pop like Danielson.
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In the end, AWOO disappoints not on the strength of its music, which is accomplished if not particularly thrilling, but from a sense of missed potential.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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calvinhobbesOct 3, 2006You will play this album for days and days. Trust me.
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