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While this is a forward-thinking and cerebral affair, as Yoav has a love of dance music, he often works with funky grooves and rhyming lyrics that should appeal to fans with a club-oriented aesthetic.
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The songs on his debut album, Charmed and Strange are quirky and inventive.
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Yoav proves that a guitar and his voice are the only instruments you really need to make powerful, versatile music.
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MojoAt their best, as in 'Sometimes,' they drag you into their circling obsessiveness and measured rhetoric. But, too often, Yoav's cleverness feels calculating--unless it's the reverse that, over-tasked. [May 2008]
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This is a debut album of startling originality, that seems set to cast its spell most acutely on a hot summer's night.
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New Musical Express (NME)Everything you hear is supposedly conjured from Yoav's guitar. It's a cute trick but as the album storms ahead it becomes a distracting and frustrating gimmick that sells the songs short. [15 Mar 2008, p.50]
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Yoav’s whole shtick is that he only plays the acoustic guitar, but he runs it through a looping pedal to make drum and keyboard sounds. Conceptually, it’s an okay idea, and Yoav pulls it off, but it gets boring fast.
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He performs everything (from drum'n'bass to hip hop beats) on his guitar, leading him to be dubbed a 'one-man Timbaland band'. A true percussive original.
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Yoav goes about his expecting some sort of kneejerk praise for rolling dolo, but thanks to a total lack of depth, sonic or otherwise, all I see is the gimmicks, the wack lyrics.
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Boasting imaginative craft, his dedication to his technique’s style is apparent, but in every other facet the album takes a downward spiral.
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Charmed and Strange, however, is a collection of interesting guitar playing with a few lyrics thrown in for pop legitimacy.
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Q MagazineThe sparse sound that he produces means it's more entertaining to watch his trickery than to listen to it. [Apr 2008, p.117]
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UncutA haunting cover of the Pixies' 'Where Is My Mind' rounds off a quite remarkable debut. [May 2008]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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BirdBoyApr 3, 2008A very unusual and most welcome record.
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ScottA.Apr 3, 2008
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ChristopherC.Apr 3, 2008Club Thing is my favourite track of the year.