Hall Music - Loney, Dear
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  • Summary: Emil Svanangen's fifth album under the Loney, Dear name was inspired by chamber orchestras.
  • Record Label: Polyvinyl
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Pop, Swedish Pop/Rock
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  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 19
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  1. Magnet
    Nov 11, 2011
    80
    "It's not sad, but it's not OK," sings Emil Svanangen on Hall Music, neatly delineating the album's emotional landscape, a narrow isthmus of calm stretching into a sea of sorrow. [#81, p. 57]
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  2. Mojo
    Dec 22, 2011
    80
    This is charming. And uplifting. Happy-sad but impossibly soothing. [Nov 2011, p.92]
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  3. Under The Radar
    Nov 3, 2011
    80
    The album is most striking in what it conveys in simplicity. [Oct 2011, p.101]
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  4. Q Magazine
    Nov 9, 2011
    60
    Lonely, Dear offers another helping of sweet melancholy on Hall Music. [Nov. 2011, p. 142]
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