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Feb 21, 2012Blouse may have inadvertently produced one of the most notable, truly unencumbered reflexive turns on the genre (and almost necessarily by extension, its subculture) in recent memory.
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Jan 6, 2012If there's a flaw in the design of Blouse, it's that sometimes it can feel too disconnected, too frosty.
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Nov 29, 2011Blouse is a record made for wandering inside the mind, where memory and dreams meet to form a less concrete kind of reality.
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Nov 22, 2011Blouse are a promising, if yet to be fully realized, project.
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Nov 22, 2011There are a few moments when all the backward glancing becomes a bit heavy-handed, but in their most inspired moments, Blouse find the connection between the limits of outdated technology and the terrible bliss of desiring something impermanent.
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Nov 22, 2011The West Coast threesome's pillowy, nostalgic abstractions veer from the sweeping histrionics of M83 or breezy gestures of various Scandinavians toward a woozy, romantic restlessness
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Nov 22, 2011Taken as a whole, Blouse is a more promising debut than a satisfying one, but its standout moments leave listeners wanting more.
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Nov 22, 2011Blouse avoids dismissal as just another '80s dream pop group with a consistent, sophisticated grasp of the genre's tenets.
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Nov 22, 2011There are moments of brilliance; sketches on a theme but with no real conclusion.