- Band Name: Cloud Control
- Record Label: Atlantic
- Release Date: Sep 17, 2013
- Summary: The London-based, Australian alternative rock quartet recorded parts of its second full-length release around the countryside and caves in the UK.
- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Pop
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Sep 23, 201380Dream Cave is one of those albums that unfolds like origami, each song revealing itself as its own unique world within an overarching, carefully-crafted universe.
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Sep 16, 201380There's a pleasing, high-pitched ache to frontman Alister Wright's vocals, and an ambivalent feeling has the album sliding between 70s rock-hippy sweetness (with its full-band harmonies and Fleetwood Mac-style flourishes) and moodier fare.
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Sep 19, 201375On the whole, this is a wonderful album, and a suitable follow-up to Bliss Release.
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Sep 16, 201370With just the right balance of brooding and brightness, Dream Cave is one of those albums that seems tailor-made for rainy day reflection, with Cloud Control giving listeners just the push they need to go into their own heads and look around for a bit.
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Sep 16, 201370While there are certainly no grand overarching themes designed to tie the whole album together, the collection has a coherent unity both musically and lyrically which more conceptually defined and led works would struggle to match.
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Sep 16, 201370This eclecticism of emotion expressed instrumentally and lyrically is indicative of a matured songwriting style, and absorbs the listener at every turn.
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Oct 11, 201360Not all of it works but tracks such as the duskily euphoric Dojo Rising; Moonrabbit, all sunny, West Coast harmonies; and Ice Age Heatwave, which sparkles on a soundscape of otherworldly guitars, are epic in both sound and ambition. [Nov 2013, p.102]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Sep 21, 20136
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