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Sep 5, 2013Carrier ends up being a remarkably balanced meditation on joy and loss, as well as one of the more nuanced albums in Dodos' body of work.
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Alternative PressAug 22, 2013The lullaby-like "Death" feels too on-the-nose, but it doesn't detract much from Carrier's bittersweet power: an atmosphere of loss, contemplation and return. [Sep 2013, p.88]
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Aug 28, 2013It’s unlikely that Carrier will be the offering that brings that promise home. Yet it is a superb showcase for the pair’s ample prowess.
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Aug 22, 2013Even though it’s as proficient as the Dodos have always been, albeit in subtler ways, there’s nothing about this record that feels arbitrary. It’s an album that feels like honesty, or at least a very well done facsimile of it.
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Aug 26, 2013The result is an intricately variegated album torn between two countervailing threads: heartache and rejuvenation.
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Sep 3, 2013It is among The Dodos’ best work--Carrier is a fitting eulogy.
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Aug 26, 2013The lyrics on Carrier stand as the most meaningful in their catalog, making their newest album stand once again as the band’s best yet.
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MagnetSep 19, 2013[Neko] Case misses Carrier, and it her. [No. 102, p.55]
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Aug 26, 2013What’s perhaps most impressive on Carrier is that the traditional (by The Dodos’ standards) rock songs, like the restrained Family, work just as well as the comparatively experimental tracks like Confidence.
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Aug 28, 2013This is a cut above your average US alt.art-rock, most notably on ‘Stranger’, which sounds like The Strokes doing The Shins.
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Sep 3, 2013There’s still much celebration to be had in Carrier; they just channel it in a way that’s not expected of them.
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Aug 22, 2013The sophistication suits the songs, which have a tragic seriousness without becoming a gloomy slog.
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Aug 27, 2013The Dodos’ tried-and-true approach and execution is far too strong and compelling to abandon, but by amending it ever so slightly on Carrier, they’ve realized something worth documenting. And it’s certainly worth listening to.
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Aug 27, 2013It’s the kind of record for the times when you’re lost in thought about someone you might’ve known for a little while, wondering where they are and if they ever think about you.
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Aug 29, 2013Carrier doesn’t have anything to rekindle, and so you forget you’re listening to a Dodos album at all: it doesn’t feel warm, or involving, or fun. But it does feel special.
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Aug 27, 2013The Dodos have released what is at once perhaps their most interesting, strangest and even most concise work to date.
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Aug 22, 2013Carrier is a disarming reminder of the therapeutic power music can hold.
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Aug 23, 2013Carrier, finally, brings that emotional subtext to the front, and the result is a Dodos record that is thrillingly translucent and crushingly intimate, almost uncomfortably so. It’s love and loss, as straightforward as you please.
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Aug 27, 2013The Dodos have more than capably captured Reimer’s amped-up methods; they just haven’t quite brought them into the fold.
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Aug 27, 2013The result is a collection of songs that really soar in a way that some previous material hasn’t.
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Aug 23, 2013Carrier is a joy and we have an album that’s up there with the most moving and stirring records of 2013.
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Aug 28, 2013It leaves you wanting more. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.96]
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