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- Summary: The seventh release for the California psych-pop duo of Glenn Donaldson and Donovan Quinn was recorded by Jason Quever of Papercuts.
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- Record Label: Woodsist
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Folk
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Aug 29, 2014Here, together again, they pick up more or less where they left off, slipping subdued hooks into strummy reveries and spiking easy breezy tunes with jarring, occasional violent lyrics.
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MagnetAug 6, 2014Their first album in five years captures the comfortable joy of falling back into sync with old pals. [No. 112, p.61]
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Jul 8, 2014If Skygreen Leopards still sounds like its surrounding environs--and it does, kinda--the group works to summon a Bay from times past, rather than portraying its current digitized state.
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Jul 8, 2014Family Crimes sees Skygreen Leopards light years away from the experimental, communal folk sounds that they were drawn to in their earliest days, but still retains the same distant dreaminess, though it's more dedicated to melody than any other chapter of the band's epic, shifting discography.
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Jul 10, 2014The tracks as a whole may come off a bit uniform, containing little in the way of surprise, but Family Crimes is nonetheless a sweet reward for those of us who’ve spent years following Jeweled Antler and everything after.
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Jul 10, 2014The album doesn’t valley so much as it plateaus, but it never quite falls into out and out repetition. Quinn and Donaldson are too good at their craft for that, and this bittersweet set of tunes is proof of not only the lasting nature of their sound but also its elasticity.
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Jul 8, 2014The vocals feel particularly watered down, a pastel blur that lacks the highs and lows that the Leopards had delivered in the past, the songs blending too anonymously into each other.