Can Cladders
- High Llamas
- Band Name: High Llamas
- Record Label: Drag City
- Release Date: Feb 20, 2007
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It's not a grand departure, just the best album yet by one of the modern-rock era's most loveable bands.
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80It's not perfect--you want it to shift up a gear occasionally, or to try different approaches, but the songs are all stuffed with daffy musicality and charm. [Apr 2007, p.102]
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80These articulate odes to pop's past strike the right balance between carefully studied craft and melodic inspiration. [Mar 2007, p.83]
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Four years in the making, Can Cladders could have come off the presses as an indulgent, overwrought opus. Instead, it simply (but oh-so-craftily) distilled a career's worth of creative tangents into one solid, focused effort that, if you're observant enough, holds its own amongst the likes of the Llamas' comparative "elite."
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An unapologetically lovely affair that is sure to soothe the frazzled nerves of its discerning listening public.
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73The most enjoyable High Llamas record in over a decade.
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70This is laregly classic pastoral English whimsy at its best. [Apr 2007, p.119]
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It's more than a little precious and fluffy for those without kaleidoscope eyes for the stuff, but if this is your bag, you'll know it (and love it). [Apr 2007, p.60]
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70As always, Can Cladders is immaculately-produced, with an airy feel that emphasizes the breezy songs.
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Tracks like 'Bacaroo' and 'Sailing Bells' deploy the sort of lovely string arrangements that sweep you off your feet and have your knickers on the floor before you even notice your cold bits.
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So while they have returned, The High Llamas have not exactly returned to form. [#16, p.92]
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60Packed with vividly coloured melodies, these songs have a luminous quality, but they also confuse the hypnotic with the repetitive, and richness of texture with gluttonous excess.
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The album's 13 insubstantial tracks make no concessions to contemporary ideas of 'substance' in pop music: they are exercises in style so formal they're almost French.
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60O'Hagan seems to love style far more than substance.
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Perhaps due to their prominence, Can Cladders works best when the strings are actually ditched.
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