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Unable to pen and record a clunker amidst his handsome ballads and cascading rockers, McCaughan coalesces sugar-coated melodies with personal, often uproarious lyrics that can make his 40-something voice sound half its age.
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Throughout Be Still Please, no matter how much it conforms to overarching indie stereotypes, McCaughan draws fresh delights at every turn.
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Be Still Please is another hidden treasure from one of the truly important bands, and persons, in pop music today.
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With Be Still Please... McCaughan weaves threads from all past Portastatic incarnations into one happy-sad tapestry.
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Under The RadarThe extra focus on lyrics does seem to water down Portastatic’s traditionally instantaneous infectious hooks, sacrificing some style for substance and making the album a little more of a slow grower as opposed compared to those past. [#15]
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McCaughan's confidence, in his talents and his songs, is readily apparent throughout this album, and the result is his best non-Superchunk work to date.
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Oddly familiar but strikingly different.
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Be Still Please is the best work of McCaughan’s career.
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Paste MagazineA compelling collision of listenable and clever. [Dec 2006, p.97]
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ReubenFDec 18, 2006
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mtDec 12, 2006i never would've thought portastatic would've grown so much in vitality ten years after the last classic superchunk record.
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JohnsonANov 9, 2006