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  • Summary: The third album from the Nashville, Tennessee rock quartet led by Jonas Stein was produced by Jim Eno of Spoon.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Uncut
    Sep 12, 2012
    80
    Given a fuzzed-out, subterranean production glaze, Butter filters everything from surf and lounge touches to Spaghetti Western flourishes, but is best when spinning cool pop hooks up out of the muck. [Oct 2012, p.87]
  2. Sep 12, 2012
    80
    Butter not only betters their signature sound, it finally makes it sound concise.
  3. Dec 3, 2012
    70
    With Eno at the controls, the Turbo Fruits straighten up, fly right and in the process bash out their most enjoyable work to date.
  4. Sep 12, 2012
    68
    An unchallenging, unsurprising, and un-garage-y joy, but a joy nonetheless.
  5. Sep 14, 2012
    62
    The whole thing is less bratty than 2009's Echo Kid.
  6. Sep 14, 2012
    60
    Stein and Brock still seem to be working out their garage and pop influences in their guitar work; they don't deliver a fully satisfying fusion of their influences, but instead split the difference between jangle and crunch, watering it all down in the process.
  7. Under The Radar
    Sep 12, 2012
    50
    The wild abandon, lo-fi to the point of being muffled style is Butter's main appeal. It is also its downfall. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.122]

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