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- Summary: This solo disc from the co-founder of New Zealand rockers The Clean includes backing by members of Lambchop.
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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A luminously lovely solo album.
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The album flows like sweet maple syrup from beginning to end, Kilgour's intimate croon caressing you like kind words from an old friend.
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Frozen Orange might as well have simplicity, directness, and melody stamped like a mantra throughout the liner notes.
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Anyone looking for [an] unpretentious, laidback and solid full-length is hereby invited to check out what's made Kilgour one our most consistent performers for 25 years.
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Producer Mark Nevers emphasizes vamping, letting songs rev up and down in such a way that listeners can imagine them still existing somewhere outside the disc itself.
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As gentle, elegant end-of-the-summer albums go, Frozen Orange scores top marks. As a David Kilgour record, it's more subjective; some listeners will love the polish, while others will consider it surplus to requirements.
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While I am not one to fault Kilgour for slowing things down a little, an impatient listener might argue that Frozen Orange shows Kilgour's age in the same ways Yo La Tengo's Summer Sun belied theirs.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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dyancNov 22, 2004Frozen Orange is full of sweet, sad songs describing love, desire and resignation in equal measures. It's my favourite album of the moment...
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