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- Summary: This is the third album for Montreal's Olivier Alary, who previously worked with Bjork and Cat Power.
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- Record Label: Fat Cat
- Genre(s): Jazz, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Positive: 8 out of 12
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Mixed: 4 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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Aug 15, 2011Excerpts is a work of forgetful minimalism; it is powerfully repetitious--perhaps, in waves, completely random.
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Feb 17, 2011Each turn the album takes is a good one: the swaying Excerpts reinforces the scope of the music, the vinyl-affected Imprints throws some atmosphere into the approach, and, really, the whole of the album makes for an unrivaled listening experience.
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Feb 17, 2011overall Excerpts is an evocative, sophisticated and charming record, awash with imaginative atmospheres, that looks back to the past for inspiration without ever wallowing in sentiment.
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Feb 17, 2011Desperately, painfully arty but worthy of your recollection.
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May 23, 2011While it brandishes a certain kind of insular brilliance, it's music more ripe for conversation or think pieces than headphones or the living room hi-fi.
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UncutFeb 23, 2011Sharing lead vocals with the immaculately Hardy-esque Darcy Conroy, Alary concocts wistful chansons and widescreen waltzes with an elegance and deadpan humour that evokes Sebastien Tellier, Stereolab and Matthew Herbert. [Feb 2011, p.84]
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Mar 2, 2011It's not that Ensemble has made an actively bad album. It's just that somber music which comes from abstract origins shouldn't be so vacuous and blank.