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If you are looking for big-hearted, easy-to-swallow guitar pop, you could do much worse than Guster. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to do much better.
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The five-piece band's new album, Easy Wonderful, is full of those same universal ponderings and investigations of love.
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Oct 22, 2010After 15 years of recording together, the members of Guster deliver their poppiest, most cohesive effort with Easy Wonderful.
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The Tufts-bred pop rock quartet is still interested in layering varied instrumentation- banjos and synthesizers, warped electric guitars and clanging bells--to achieve different textures, Easy just feels a bit cleaner and less symphonically ambitious. But that doesn't mean it's less diverse.
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There's something happily uncomplicated--and at times proudly uncool--about his band's sixth album, Easy Wonderful, like a 1990s Baja hoodie that you can't bring yourself to throw out.
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A charming collection of breezy, hook-filled pop songs.
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Jan 11, 2011With Easy Wonderful, Guster has attained that perfect pop rock sound, yet hasn't abandoned its roots as an acoustic trio.
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These ideas are anything but easy, but on Easy Wonderful, Guster wraps its thoughtful approach to pop with the kind of outsized hooks that the band does better than just about anyone.
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If Guster can grow old and still sound so damn cheerful, maybe everything won't be so drab after all.
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UncutMulti-instrumentalist Joe Pisapia, produced much of Easy Wonderful, which is distinguished by impeccably crafted contours, sharp lyrics, buoyant grooves and swelling choruses. [Nov 2010, p.90]
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 9 out of 10
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Nov 27, 2010
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