Gentle Stream - The Amazing
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  • Summary: This is the second album from Reine Fiske, Johan Holmegard (both members of the Swedish band, Dungen), and Christopher Gunrup.

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
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  1. The A.V. Club
    Oct 22, 2012
    91
    The Amazing like to entice and then awe, always bringing songs back to the guitars, which sound like they're being played by a real human person, until they burst into shards of jagged, whirling rainbows.
  2. Drowned In Sound
    Jul 16, 2012
    80
    With prog moodiness and pastoral folkiness both hanging heavily over The Amazing, it's the more psychedelic edges that twirl around the songs, dragging them into tangled and weird territory, that makes Gentle Stream occasionally exceptional.
  3. All Music Guide
    Jul 16, 2012
    80
    The album as a whole clearly values the arrangements and overall instrumental performances perhaps even more than the singing, with numerous extended codas and breaks where the performers stretch out to the full.
  4. PopMatters
    Oct 23, 2012
    50
    It's possible that fans of mellow, laid-back rock will savor this album, but overall, lethargy overwhelms inventiveness on all but a handful of tracks.

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