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- Summary: The 11th full-length studio release for Canadian alt-country band The Sadies was produced by Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry and was the final album with guitarist Dallas Good, who passed away in February 2022.
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- Record Label: Yep Roc
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 8 out of 8
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Jul 21, 2022A flurry of emotion — joyful and pointed — and clattering noise blending into haunting sparseness, this is the record the Sadies have been working on capturing for their entire existence. Thankfully, and with bittersweet timing, they got it done when we most needed them to, making the best record that has ever been made by anyone. Ever.
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Jul 28, 2022The Sadies created something very special here, and Dallas Good was rightly proud of this work.
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Jul 22, 2022This is far and away the best the band has ever sounded on record. ... Then there’s the songs, which are perhaps the strongest collection both Dallas and Travis have assembled since their 2010 masterpiece Darker Circles. The majority of the material here finds the band playing in their muscular, gothic mod-garage mode, with the two brothers singing in perfect, spectral harmony.
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Jul 21, 2022It’s the sound of The Sadies that we’ve enjoyed for over two decades now. The band and the producer are proudly calling it the best album that the band’s ever made.
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Jul 21, 2022The 11th release from the Toronto-based, foursome certainly contains some of The Sadies’ finest work. Colder Streams is one of the group’s most diverse sets.
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MojoJul 21, 2022Its sure-footed '60 psych, garage and country is potently rendered. [Aug 2022, p.89]
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UncutJul 21, 2022The Sadies’ nebulous country-rock moves through glistening psychedelia (“Message To Belial”), gorgeous string ballads (“All The Good”) and fierce garage fuzz (“Ginger Moon”). [Aug 2022, p.31]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Aug 23, 2022
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