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- Summary: This is the third full-length album for the San Francisco-based indie rock band.
- Record Label: Dead Oceans
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 10 out of 14
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Mixed: 4 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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The meticulously constructed aural textures created by scores of overdubs by Feinberg and Green make songs like the epic instrumental “Fortunate Son” as much fun to contemplate as listen to, no matter what substances might be clouding your mind at the time.
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A bit of guitar jangle pushes up under her voice, a subliminal rumble of bass, but mostly, notes are allowed to ripen, carry and decay slowly, on their own terms. On a record that runs a flag of hedonism over brainy complications, here is the real thing, swooning, wordless and headily scented.
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The jams always pull back at just the right moment, and the songs equal their folksy models. There's so much heart here that even the most exacting re-creations of bygone FM wank seem spontaneous.
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Under The RadarSomehow, Citay continues to blur the lines between pop, classic rock, progressive, and experiemnetal music, done seemlessly and with beautiful ease, graceful ambition and kick-ass virtuosity. [Holiday 2009, p.76]
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It's nice, pretty sounding brain candy, sugar-coated technical ecstasy. But it sometimes leaves the listener wanting a bit more substance and a little less style.
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There’s a solid groove to most tracks, with no digressions to the Court of the Crimson King, or democratic opportunities for weaker members of the commune to sing.
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Q MagazineCitay's fourth album hasn't moved far from the excessive Black Sabbath/led Zeppelin grind of their self-titled 2006 debut. Dream Get Together does, however, show more finesse. [Mar 2010, p.98]