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This, his third album and major-label debut, stretches this sea of sound even further, ebbing and flowing from ethereal opener "Never Be The Same," to the folky strum of "For Good."
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Goodbye's shoegaze fascination, organic glow, and subtle shifts belie its apparent initial simplicity.
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An album that doesn't immediately astound, but gradually unfurls in dense atmospheric strands.
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Goodbye is striking and rewarding in its own way; it just might take a little more time to sink into the murky new agey abyss.
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Goodbye follows in the same muted patterns as 2003's "A Strangely Isolated Place," but layers on the vocals (in thin, gauzy, washes of course) over his treble-heavy, misty backdrops of beats and synths.
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Goodbye contains both the best and the worst of Schnauss’ output until now.
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Ulrich Schnauss returns with more lush, ambient music fitting for any chill-out session or long summer drive with the windows down.
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With Goodbye, he's finally got the levels just right. By moving even closer to the shoegazer sound, the result sounds less like pilfering and more like reinvention.
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In fact, "delayed," "drenched," and "dervish" pretty much sum up Goodbye. Schnauss piles on effects and layers in a psychedelic melee that would leave Ozric Tentacles and Pink Floyd standing transfixed by his stroboscopic strategies.
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SpinGracefully melancholic electronica with too much soul to be relegated to sushi-restaurant background music. [Aug 2007, p.106]
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BlenderHe took three years to produce this follow-up, and the labor shows, for good and ill. [August 2007, p.117]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 13
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Negative: 1 out of 13
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Aug 19, 2010
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ChelcSep 27, 2007
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JVTAug 31, 2007