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An exhilarating take on rock-'n'-roll caught, torn, between striving for the light and reveling in the dark.
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Celebration is pure ecstasy, a sexual, spellbinding listen that acts on you physically.
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Theatrical and heartfelt, Celebration is a fully realized debut that promises even better things to come.
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Alternative PressCelebration represent the Baltimore trio's arty fringe-rock obsessions in sleeker, more resonant forms. [Feb 2006, p.120]
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Celebration is as theatrical as it is guttural, with Ford’s voice bellowing above cabaret-style organs, sharp guitars and loose, spiraling drum riffs.
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It's a dizzyingly impressive debut.
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MojoThis is one darkly alluring trip. [Mar 2006, p.108]
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UncutDark cabaret with an unhinged, dervish energy. [Feb 2006, p.70]
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The band sounds something like 4AD's entire catalogue being chopped up and fed through a meat-grinder.
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Celebration have made the type of record about which it can be said that when it's good, it's very good, but when it misses the mark, it misses it by a lot.
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The whole experience becomes rather draining after a few listens.
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An album of gentle, if sporadically confusing, beauty.
User score distribution:
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DMar 31, 2006Celebration is crazy!!! This is real music, gets me so pumped to live...And their live shows are killer - This band is way way underrated....