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- Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the Indiana quartet which includes Marty Spowles, brothers Luke and Jonathan Jones, and Luke's wife, Lauren Jones.
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- Record Label: Temporary Residence
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Mixed: 4 out of 6
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Oct 20, 2011When you're operating on such a grand scale, and the exultant, openhearted Enemy/Lover is rarely outpaced by its lofty ambitions.
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Oct 20, 2011Shakespeare they ain't, but for those more concerned with pumping their fists next summer than parsing lyrics about orchards, Enemy/Lover is a compelling enough call to action.
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Oct 20, 2011Given a wider range of material to show off the group's considerable strengths (Jones is a powerful and expressive vocalist, and the band's control of texture and ambience is exquisite), Dreamers of the Ghetto could have produced a much more compelling debut.
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Oct 20, 2011As the album concludes somewhere in the seventh minute of "Tether," all the aim-for-the-heights stuff they're about just becomes its own locked-in loop, an epicness that feels less remarkable than simply familiar.
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Feb 1, 2012If there's unifying criticism of this album, it's just that too often this quartet is on its way somewhere, but doesn't really seem to have mapped out the journey all that clearly.
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Oct 20, 2011This may be as good as it gets for Dreamers of the Ghetto, and it's really just fair.