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Feb 10, 2012Ester is very much an individualist work.
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Feb 10, 2012Filtered through a dispersing wall of glistening synths and trippy haze, Ester is a sonically rich debut.
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UncutJan 18, 2012With everything slathered liberally in reverb, Ester is wrong in all the right ways. [Feb 2012, p.90]
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Jan 12, 2012They appear to have hit the ground running, and have kickstarted their year delivering a cocksure record which welcomes repeated listens.
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Jan 10, 2012Ester is a collection best suited to after-hours reflection, a glass of red in hand and the TV playing only static.
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Jan 10, 2012TTTs are not the only young group on the block to be melding detached female vocals, distant percussive rattles and guitar effects, all swaddled in a sonic fog, but they're better at it than most.
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Feb 10, 2012Ester's a strong debut from a band that will hit its stride when it learns to connect as much as it concocts.
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Feb 10, 2012An incredibly interesting debut album that's nearly as clever as its creators intended.
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Feb 7, 2012Trailer Trash Tracys' try-anything attitude overpowers the actual songs, but that doesn't stop Ester from being a fascinating and often haunting debut that just whets the appetite for more.
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Feb 7, 2012Ester is an album to get wrapped up in, and feel fairly unabashedly positive about, once the band has done its job of making you feel vaguely uneasy, which is ultimately the record's--and band's--only failing.
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Jan 30, 2012This is more adventurous fare but never forgoes its footing in melody land--well, with the exception of the off-putting "Rolling," a short track that unfortunately opens the record and sounds like a symphony warm-up with six instruments headed in different directions.
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Jan 25, 2012The album isn't faultless by any means, but Trailer Trash Tracys have made one of the most interesting albums of recent months.
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Jan 10, 2012Ester doesn't quite have a narrow enough scope for us to be able to say that Trailer Trash Tracys have a sound that's all their own, but they're close to finding their voice, and with a little more refinement it will come out, not loudly, but clearly.
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Jan 10, 2012While they still don't quite seem to be the finished article, there's plenty of promise.
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Jan 10, 2012A little more melodic resolve wouldn't go amiss, but 'Ester' is a solid, imaginative debut that leaves you aglow with the ice-warmth of a blip-literate Cocteau Twins.