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May 31, 2012There's enough creative progress here to prove that the band isn't in a holding pattern, though they're shrewd enough to still be easily recognizable to the audience that formed around their debut.
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May 30, 2012A good deal of this album sounds like it could've been recorded by a lone foot-stomping folksinger, carrying over the intimate, around-the-kitchen-table ambience of Ebert's 2011 solo release, Alexander.
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May 29, 2012Balminess, after all, is the chief asset of this second album's slow-rolling, harmonic country-gospel jams.
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May 29, 2012If Up From Below was a crazy dance festival, Here is the smooth joint smoked in the shade afterwards.
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May 29, 2012The album comes up short in the song department and doesn't quite get by on its abundance of free-love signifiers.
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May 29, 2012He sounds absolutely defeated on this short, non-starter of a record.
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May 30, 2012Here winds up an album of originals, sung by the people who wrote them, but somehow resembling more than anything else a campfire sing-along of someone else's songs.
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Oct 30, 2012Frontman Alex Ebert shoots more sincerity with the sophomore effort, which paradoxically results in a set that feels about as authentic as his previous Ima Robot persona.
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Q MagazineOct 12, 2012As tourism, fine, but it's no trip. [Jul 2012, p.103]
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MagnetJun 19, 2012Two albums in, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros sound just as phony as Ima Robot did. [No.88 p.59]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 23
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Mixed: 6 out of 23
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Negative: 2 out of 23
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