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- Summary: 'C'mon' is the third full-length release for the experimental Chicago-based instrumental quartet.
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Experimental, Instrumental
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 7
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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You can listen to the disc over and over and never get bored; there's always a new musical idea to discover in a place that you didn't expect to hear it.
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MojoThis is a thing of deftly understated beauty from pillar to post. [Mar 2002, p.104]
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The WireAs Town And Country's move into mellow artists maturity, C'mon is an oasis of sensitive calm from our loutish world. [#217, p.61]
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Magnet[Town and Country] have the compositional savvy and play with the precision to make such passages hypnotic rather than pretentious. [#54, p.110]
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UncutT&C are more approachable than most, replacing numbing virtuosity with a kind of meditative warmth. [May 2002, p.110]
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Q MagazineA perfect chill-out album for those of an acoustic inclination. [Apr 2002, p.122]
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Lacking any dynamism, complexity, or invention, the relentless drone of most of these tracks is a shallow, reactionary statement to the progress of the post-rock genre, and completely unedifying.
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