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- Summary: This is the first album on the Vanguard label for the Los Angeles-based band who had previously worked with Jenny Lewis.
- Record Label: Vanguard
- Genre(s): Alternative, Country
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Top Track
| Just Like Heaven | |
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| Show me, show me, show me How you do that trick? The one that makes me scream", she said "The one that makes me laugh", she said Threw her arms... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 18
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Mixed: 8 out of 18
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Negative: 1 out of 18
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MojoThe Watsons' approach is softer, and more affecting, than wry, tack-sharp Lewis. [Aug 2008, p.114]
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Their wispy, diaphanous reworking of The Cure’s 'Just Like Heaven' suggests the Watson formula could travel far.
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The Path of Slow has led countless down-tempo electronica acts into the dead-end of dinner music. But when slow works, it can be voluptuously pleasurable, as the Watson Twins show on their lovely full-length debut.
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The Twins aren’t so compelling as songwriters, and too many of these fire songs sound merely serviceable, with mellow hooks and humdrum sentiments.
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Without shattering any paradigms, they’ve assembled a very listenable collection of songs that’d be a welcome addition to a Starbucks summer playlist.
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Their Fire Songs can seem a little thin-boned--the twins’ intertwined voices are lovely but ethereal, the steel guitars melting into the horizon like a mirage.
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Two heads aren’t necessarily better than on! Fire Songs isn’t a terrible album, it’s just a little too sweet and safe for this writer’s ears.