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  • Summary: The experimental collaboration between Daniel O'Sullivan and Alexander Tucker explore avant pop on their second release.
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  • Record Label: Thrill Jockey
  • Genre(s): Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Experimental Electronic
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  1. The Wire
    Jul 24, 2013
    80
    Glynnaestra feels like the project has moved beyond causal collaboration into something fully formed. [Jul 2013, p.56]
  2. Aug 2, 2013
    80
    [This is an] excellent, playful and moving album as a whole: the closer you examine Glynnaestra, the deeper and stranger the rabbit hole goes.
  3. Mojo
    Aug 9, 2013
    80
    Reduced to a duo for Southern Records' live-in-the-studio Latitudes series in 2012, Tucker and O'Sullivan seasoning their cosmic mantras with such sweet tinctures as early Eno, This Heat and the acoustic mirror harmonies of early OMD. With Glynnaestra the potion is perfected. [Sep 2013, p.86]
  4. Magnet
    Aug 16, 2013
    75
    The songs are mostly concise, ranging from less than two minutes to more than seven, but their motorik propulsion and detailed, gradual builds add more subtle rewards beneath synth-pop immediacy. [No. 101, p.55]
  5. Aug 14, 2013
    70
    Glynnaestra is not quite of this world, but that has a good bit of its appeal.
  6. Jul 24, 2013
    60
    “Harpies” is emblematic of the issue that prevents Glynnaestra from being an unblemished success, since despite its enveloping airs, the instrumental does often reverberate as a little undercooked and sketched out, as if it were the anticipatory intro to a more expansive and consequential piece. A significant minority of the album’s tracks could be charged with this offense, because for all their sheen and arch-modernism, they often don’t build upon their ostensibly innovative foundations.
  7. Q Magazine
    Aug 20, 2013
    60
    Far out just got further away. [Sep 2013, p.102]

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