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Alternative PressFeb 23, 2011The album runs a tad long--and it's difficult to suss out the band's individual voice from underneath the weight of their influences. [Mar 2011, p.92]
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Mar 7, 2011Though not without merit, the overriding sensation is one of empty melodrama.
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Mar 14, 2011It's not a bad record (they knew I was going to say that) and in the Eighties-MTV alternative rock-lite rush of Thrones it does have one genuinely great pop moment, which as far as I'm aware is more than can be said for any of its predecessors.
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Mar 21, 2011Ultimately, though, its success still falls on Lightburn's shoulders, a vocalist who's always straddled the line between impassioned and overwrought.
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Mar 4, 2011They're clearly aiming for epic but more often accomplish exhausting. It's admirable to see a band unselfconscious enough to present such unapologetically maudlin balladry (in a good way), but there's only so much of it you can take in one sitting.
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Mar 10, 2011There are moments on Degeneration Street that suggest Dears' creative mainspring Murray Lightburn is hoping to effect an Arcade Fire-style vault from indie saltmines to popularity; but it's all too little, and at five albums into their career, too late for that.
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UncutMar 29, 2011At 14 tracks, what begins as a demonstration of impressive ambition ends up dragging. [Apr 2011, p.78]
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Feb 24, 2011This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.