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May 18, 2016Earrings Off! is undoubtedly a brave, intriguing release, and should cement Adult Jazz as a band you really can’t afford to ignore.
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May 18, 2016Earrings Off! is an album that demands multiple listens and gets better with each one.
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Jun 6, 2016When Earrings Off! is good, it’s very, very good. When it’s not so good, it sounds too much like forced experimentation.
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May 18, 2016Earrings Off! is made up of uncompromising stuff that may take some adjusting to, but willing ears will find articulate, distinctive musicality that rewards repeat listens. It might even provide an unexpected earworm or two.
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May 20, 2016Even with misgivings about the lack of length and focus, this mini-LP makes fairly clear that Adult Jazz are in a transitional state. Earrings Off! is too small to be called a sophomore slump, and it introduces new elements to the band’s repertoire that could easily play well with the best aspects of Gist Is.
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May 26, 2016Earrings Off! is filled with these sorts of growing pains, ones that hopefully point to brighter pastures sometime soon for this promising band.
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May 19, 2016Earrings Off! is as much art project as it is pop album, though, and three of these seven tracks are brief instrumentals that don’t attempt to soften their avant ambitions.
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May 18, 2016Earrings Off! also features three instrumental tracks, but none of these feel like they add anything to the experience of the album, or its central themes.