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- Summary: This is the third full-length album for Dayve Hawk as Memory Tapes.
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- Record Label: Carpark Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Dream Pop, Ambient Pop
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Positive: 16 out of 24
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Mixed: 8 out of 24
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Dec 4, 2012By throwing out the genre rulebook, Hawk is pushing electronic music into weirder, more exciting territory, chillwave purists be damned.
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Dec 4, 2012They take the things about Italo disco and synth pop that I love and imbibe them with genuine humanity and masterful songwriting.
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Dec 4, 2012The disc's six tracks clock in at less than 40 minutes, so there isn't really time to screw things up on a royal scale, making Grace/Confusion a fine listen.
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Dec 4, 2012The album, titled Grace/Confusion, offers the chillwave sound that Hawk is known for but with a fuller, crisper and more melodic take.
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Dec 6, 2012While Grace/Confusion may lean too heavily on Hawk's production, it's a hair better than Player Piano. But it's hard to call it an "improvement" or "progression" considering it's hardly outside the scope of what Memory Tapes has done so far.
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Q MagazineDec 11, 2012With no track under six minutes in length, some editing wouldn't have gone amiss. [Jan 2013, p.107]
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Dec 3, 2012It's simply warmed-over easy listening as rendered by a lo-fi producer who, ironically enough, seems outdated and outmatched in a genre known for being both retro-obsessed and DIY.
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