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Feb 7, 2011In no way throwaway, this is a trip.
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Feb 25, 2011Bardo Pond is not necessarily Avant-garde, but neither is it easy listening. It does however, defy categorization and perhaps with a little less unguided frenzy and a little more tempered structure would allow this reviewer to recommend it.
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Feb 7, 2011Bardo Pond's self-titled is a massive, monumental piece of work, proving once again that this long-running outfit can still crank the heavy, mind-numbing psych that it's always been known for.
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Feb 7, 2011So if the sprawling, all-bases-loaded Bardo Pond isn't the band's best LP, it might be their most representative: both the tiresome excess and the lung-blackening reward.
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Feb 7, 2011Bardo Pond has a good amount of acoustic elements, which lighten up the touch a little bit and even bring out an Americana influence. This lighter sound may account for the more tired feel of this album, but there are still some compelling rockers.
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Q MagazineMar 1, 2011Their eighth album is no departure. [Jan 2011, p.135]
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Feb 7, 2011It's hard to fathom how Bardo Pond have made their life-in-a-lava-lamp jams for the best part of 20 years with--we're assuming--their marbles still intact, but here they are, bubbling away with no sign of letting the quality dip.
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Feb 7, 2011Slightly shaggier and more ragged than its predecessor, 2006's Ticket Crystals, Bardo Pond sounds like the group is practically devouring its microphones as it records.
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The WireMar 1, 2011The warm campfire feel to much of Bardo Pond indicates just how much the likes of MV&EE owes this outfit, but MV&EE seldom sound this convincingly elsewhere. [Dec 2010, p.58]
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Feb 7, 2011This album does nothing to disrupt their two-decade streak of psychedelic, cosmic, post-rock transcendence.
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UncutFeb 8, 2011The prolific five-piece's cosmic space programme occasionally fails to launch, but at their transcendent best they harness the ragged glory of mid-'70s Neil Young with the epic fluidity of Popol Vuh and the blazing guitars of Spacemen 3. [Dec 2010, p.85]