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Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings
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Jon-ErickSJan 25, 2005the album has a rich rightness to its melodies, arrangements, and instrumentation that could eventually place it in some cannon that might include cole porter and mccartney/wilson. get ready for the 2051 tribute album.
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MattyMApr 8, 2004This is way up there with their best -more compelling than Buzzlebee & a necessary accessory for budding hipsters attempting to use their record collections to get informed indie-girls into the sack.
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ElizabethRJan 17, 2004Gorgeous and warm, it puts me in a happy mellow mood. Just buy it and see for yourself!
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brentkNov 27, 2003This is an outstanding album.Hawaii was good, but this album is poignant and superbly crafted,and with humour(Eg Calloway) Moments of pure genius abound.This guy is up in a statosphere of his own.Wilson and Baccharach had their day.Sean O'Hagan is simply miles ahead of anybody.
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FreddyFenderNov 26, 2003Fuck that GENX wanker from ROLLING STONE! Tell him to go buy "50 Cents" new album and stop spewing his un-informed bullshit on the net. This album is a masterpiece. If you don't understand, then listen to Britney Spears and go fuck yourself.
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EchoDenverNov 10, 2003Fans of Low, Stereolab, Tindersticks, Beach Boys, and such will find this to be a quite enjoyable record. Fresh and familiar simultaneously . . . . . .
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stingrayNov 10, 2003Beautiful.
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The album never shifts into angular or faster textures but maintains its overall coasting level with clarity, precision and charm.
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MojoLess exotic perhaps than the West Coast, Brazilian, German and Franco-Italian musical forays of the past, but even more remarkably musical, intriguingly textured and affecting. [Nov 2003, p.130]
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Beet, Maize & Corn is The High Llamas' best since 1996's frothy, visionary Hawaii, and it mirrors that record's adherence to an emotional arc built of fragments, sketches, and vamps.