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  • Summary: The second full-length release for the Glasgow-based indie rock band is the first with Rachel Taylor, who took over for the departing Cal Donnelly.
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  1. Feb 24, 2020
    90
    Spinning Coin work hard to expand their sound in interesting ways, and the end result of their efforts is an album that's challenging, bracing, and almost defiantly, certainly thrillingly, unique.
  2. Mojo
    Feb 20, 2020
    80
    Spinning Coin have spun new dreams from old. [Mar 2020, p.94]
  3. Feb 24, 2020
    80
    Standout tracks about abandonment/haunting ("Ghosting"), or the opposite ("Feel You More Than the World Right Now"), carry an elemental charge that dials right into a frequency of feeling that only the best crafted pop can discover.
  4. Uncut
    Feb 20, 2020
    70
    Good-natured album. [Apr 2020, p.35]
  5. Apr 27, 2020
    70
    There's the occasional nod to the new millennium ("Ghosting" motors along like an over-caffeinated Arcade Fire), but generally, we're talking 1967 via 1981. In 2020, that's quite remarkable. And much appreciated.
  6. Q Magazine
    Feb 20, 2020
    60
    Dividing their labour between two vocalists and songwriters does much to keep this second record interesting. [Apr 2020, p.113]
  7. Mar 4, 2020
    40
    If evaluated on the music alone, the rating would be higher, but overall Hyacinth doesn't have enough quaint peculiarities or dynamic rhythms to be anything but a minimal draw.

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