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- Summary: This is the final album with Jon Mueller and Thomas Wincek, who both left the the Milwaukee instrumental six-piece in 2010.
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- Record Label: Hometapes
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Aug 9, 2011Giving aggressively stakes out its territory, never wasting a moment--or a percolating bubble of sound--as it barrels thrillingly forward.
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MagnetNov 11, 2011The Milwaukee-based post-rock sextet pretty much turns its back on proggish theatrics this time around, instead crafting tracks so organic, they could pass for natural phenomena.[#81, p. 54]
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Aug 9, 2011It is a record that is confident, assured, and adventurous.
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UncutDec 12, 2011If rock is indeed dead, then albums like thus are its extended intelligent coda, its sustained afterburn. [Jan 2012, p.82]
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Aug 12, 2011Giving seems to go on and on towards some distant, perhaps unreachable horizon.
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Aug 11, 2011This is rock music that has come almost completely unstuck from the blues, with a sleek, relentless drive subbing in for swing.
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Aug 9, 2011"Lawns" provides an easygoing contrast in turn, keeping the general propulsion of the album going but feeling like an easy swing into a West Coast sunset instead of launching a rocket to the moon.