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It’s particularly satisfying to hear confident music like this, played with the fiery purpose of those who pioneered it over the last two decades.
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A unique indie-prog masterpiece that owes as much to Hendrix as it does to Sonic Youth.
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SpinThe ballads are still as pretty as her fan base of shy piano students and unicorns. [May 2005, p.110]
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Ex Hex can't really be called a return to form because Timony never lost it in the first place, but it's probably the most immediately appealing album in her solo career for Helium fans who missed that band's bite on her other albums.
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MojoShe indulges her mystical side to mesmerising effect. [Dec 2005, p.100]
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Entertainment WeeklyWhile Timony lays on the dreaminess a bit thick at times, Ex Hex's eerie beauty is vivid enough to keep you under its spell nearly all the way through. [22 Apr 2005, p.64]
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Ex Hex does have some problems, but they are minor in comparison to the thrill of hearing Timony rock out again.
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This is raw and raucous rock-- pounding drums, throttled prog riffs and breathy, hypnotic invocations.
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Timony sounds fresh and honest again, instead of encased in the anachronistic amber of songs about dragons, fairies and dungeons.
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When Timony's new formula works, it works fabulously, breathing new life into her material.
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She's ditched the medieval allusions to dragons and fairies and most of the courtly, classical sound that marked so much of the later Helium material and her early solo material. But what results in many ways sounds like a rehash of her previous work.
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Under The RadarDespite the constant shifting, the album never loses its groove. [#10, p.116]
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Her most direct, distorted disc since she did Helium's The Dirt of Luck a decade ago.
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It's a brutal approach that tends to trample her fragile vocals and rarely flatters her winding tunes.
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Even at her poppiest here, this is still chunky, dissonant, and dense.
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New Musical Express (NME)An odd album. [13 Aug 2005, p.58]
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DebiBMar 28, 2007
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Dan..........NJJul 20, 2005
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aaJun 18, 2005