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- Summary: The latest album on the Temporary Residence label for the Oregon quartet.
- Record Label: Temporary Residence
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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The Grails have once more pushed their own sonic terrain, where all that is familiar to them is woven into a gorgeously textured fabric with all that could be envisioned by them at this point in time, with the listener as the true beneficiary.
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MojoTheir full-length follow-up to 2007's "Burning Off Impurities" is a multi-textured out-rock masterpiece. [Jan 2008, p.101]
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Alternative PressDoomsdayer's Holiday shows a band pushing the limits of psychedelic post-rock and testing the boundaries of post-metal. [Dec 2008, p.142]
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On Doomsdayer's Holiday, the haze is even thicker, and the album represents a sort of endpoint to their journey: taking place in utter blackness, it is their most alluring and impenetrable trip yet.
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Doomsdayer's Holiday is certainly a step in the right direction in terms of balancing the eclecticism that marred "Burning Off Impurities," and it has some amazing moments, but the album as a whole is too nebulous to be complete nirvana.
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There's a lot of great moments here, but is the least consistent album from the group in awhile.
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Under The RadarIts ultimately about serving the power of the jam, an aesthetic of which Grails have a solid grap. [Year end 2008, p.82]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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AllenK.Jan 4, 2009
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