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- Summary: The Chicago indie band's fifth album is the first in a planned trilogy, and features a bit more electronics than previous outings. Members of Tortoise guest on the album, as does Rebecca Gates from the Spinanes.
- Record Label: Wishing Tree Records
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Some may find the Aluminum Group's love-on-ice songs too slick, too lacking in visceral emotion. But like a cool breeze in summer, the Navins make melancholy a delicious treat.
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UncutExquisite. [Feb 2003, p.80]
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Hear most of these songs a few times and you'll feel like you've known them all your life.
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Thematically it's a less ambitious record than Pelo (and in terms of scale, Pedals), but listen to it as the Navins' Exile in Guyville and its truths are heartbreaking in their weary familiarity.
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It's comforting, for sure, and you could very well fall asleep listening, or use it as background music, but you'd be missing a lot.
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[The music] is an unholy cross between Steely Dan, Elliott Smith and Air.
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BlenderTheir sense of perfection is also their downfall. [#11, p.124]
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JohnG.Oct 25, 2002Lush (as an adjective not the noun like myself) and delicious (adj.)
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RickkJan 8, 2003Absolutely their Best Album Yet.... A brilliant follow up to their last album Pelo .. John and Frank are increadable
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PaulDec 8, 2004extraordinary!
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NickMay 19, 2003
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