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While the album's ambitions occasionally get the better of the actual music, For the Season's intermittent brilliance is worth digging and waiting for.
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Entertainment WeeklySoupy and chaotic as it may be, there's something truly hypnotic about the indescribability of it all. [2 Dec 2005, p.81]
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New Musical Express (NME)A disorientatingly great mess of free-jazz, space-rock and voodoo swamp music. [10 Dec 2005, p.37]
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Lacking the emotional knack for jaw-dropping singles, the band succeeds in consistently churning out songs that would be solid filler on an amazing album-- a Magical Mystery Tour comprised solely of "Blue Jay Way"'s.
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Gris Gris' practice of bleeding their songs together in dissonance creates a roller coaster that renders 'For The Season' over before you've really realised it's begun.
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SpinInstead of updating psych garage folk, they allow its corpus to fester in skronky breakdowns, churning feedback, and... a wicked spirit-medium session. [Jan 2006, p.91]
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UncutThe Gris Gris are a challenging, intense proposition. [Jan 2006, p.113]
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UrbThis isn't the neo-hippie folk of Devendra Banhart, but something far more sinister. [Dec 2005, p.96]
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A bewildering kaleidoscopic whirlwind that retains edginess and remains splendid all at once.
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The difference... between For the Season and Gris Gris’s debut album is that the detours are less frequent and less distracting.
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The second album from Gris Gris may be the most eclectic cut-and-paste psychedelic freak-out committed to tape in the Lone Star state since the Red Krayola cut The Parable of Arable Land back in 1967.
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They continue with their dark, shambling, lo-fi, black-magic psychedelia, but whereas much of their previous work had either sounded like direct covers or noisy filler, they've gained a great deal of control over their sound for this one.
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ToddRFeb 7, 2006Occassionally annoying, but mostly appealing neo-psych rock.
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RalphHFeb 6, 2006yes me face melt me brain tingle.yes
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dr.vannostrenFeb 1, 2006grows on you