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- Summary: The debut album for the New York indie pop artist finally reaches the US after a successful release in the UK in 2010.
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- Record Label: Lucky Number
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Q MagazineMay 12, 2011Simple, yet irresistible. [May 2010, p.118]
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May 12, 2011The album's overriding impression is that it is an album cut from the same cloth as The Strokes' This Is It - bright, clean melodies with just a touch of gain, song structures you're hard pressed to forget - and an effort that marks Darwin Deez as one of the foremost exhibitors of compelling lo-fi.
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May 12, 2011Darwin Deez, a New York-based artist for whom the word "offbeat" seems to have been invented. Not that there are any in his music--all straight 4/4 and po-mo lyrics--but there are plenty of tunes, not a little charm and a fair old sense of humour.
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May 12, 2011It's a more honest title, for starters [Astrological Epochs & The Sands Of Time]--with 10 songs that, like the starry-eyed indie pop of Constellations, rather than cosmological in scope, are uniformly short, sweet and were recorded on a laptop.
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May 12, 2011Deez exhibits the songwriting panache of a Brendan Benson or Ben Folds, and this album acts as his DIY taster in the same way as the former's One Mississippi and the latter's work with Majosha.
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May 12, 2011Every sweetly conflicted track sounds almost exactly the same, but his perverse playfulness makes that limitation almost feel like liberation.
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May 12, 2011Here's an album for which individual track downloads were invented.
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