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- Summary:
- Record Label: Flying Nun
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, New Zealand Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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MojoJun 27, 2012Like a very fine wine, after 25 years The Bats are only really just coming on song. [Jan 2012, p.96]
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UncutFeb 13, 2012If you fell for Real Estate and their peers, here's the root. [Mar 2012, p.81]
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Feb 10, 2012The Bats have managed to maintain a ridiculously high level of quality throughout their career, and Free All the Monsters is as good a record as they've ever made.
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Feb 14, 2012These songs still jangle, still twitch, still pulse, but there's an undertone of serenity and philosophical acceptance that makes them resonate, too.
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Feb 14, 2012Free All the Monsters simply consists of a set of plaintive songs that draw on all the stylistic cues this band has worked hard to establish in the past (a Byrds-ian jangle, a touch of Velvets-style dissonance) and tightens everything up a touch.
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Feb 10, 2012Some of the best music of their career.
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Feb 14, 2012As with other Bats albums, Free All the Monsters' charming modesty is a hair's breadth away from monotonous.