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Sep 22, 2011It's one of 2011's finest pop records: 10 tracks of dreamy, weirdo hi-fi pop that grooves, sparkles, and hums with clipped beats and smooth drums.
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Sep 26, 2011Twin Sister ultimately make music seemingly wired to appeal to our most intrinsic pleasure centers, and--as befits the album's title--it's nothing short of rapturous.
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Sep 29, 2011The band has only strengthened their propensity for catchy, melodic pop hooks, and they come one after the other like a best-of Lite-FM programming block.
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Oct 7, 2011For such a young band, Twin Sister has crafted a work of real emotional depth, and molded lots of interesting musical bric-a-brac into a record that will stay long in the memory and longer in the heart.
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Oct 4, 2011In Heaven certainly does enough to make an initial impact, and on its own, it's hard to ignore.
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Sep 28, 2011If the EPs marked the group out as hazy, lo-fi practitioners in the Beach House mould, In Heaven benefits from a general polishing-up on terms of production, but more importantly from a more varied stylistic palette.
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Sep 28, 2011In Heaven sees them take the scenic route to vindicating their claim to be pop with a capital P, maintaining enough of their atmospheric qualities without being in thrall to any genre's limitations.
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MojoSep 27, 2011The tunes are all there but the mood is woozy, the arrangements spare and programmed to hypnotize. [Oct 2011, p.98]
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Sep 27, 2011The band gazes lovingly into the synthesizer presets of late 1970s and '80s soft-pop, which is nothing new, but it goes deep, taking its time with tempos and moving harmonies, adding string arrangements and thoroughly investigating the beauty of clean guitar tones.
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Sep 22, 2011This is an airy (but not aerated) blend of ambience, indie pop and 80s synth music, delivered with a grace that ensures they're miles from lo-fi territory.
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Sep 22, 2011The Long Island five-piece show a greater willingness to vary their musical palette than many of their contemporaries
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Sep 26, 2011In the end, what's really impressive is that the mousey quality of their music doesn't work against these nimble, cosmopolitan arrangements. If anything, it makes the songs richer, gives them more of a backstory.
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Sep 27, 2011In Heaven somehow manages to rise above its easy reference points, finding subtle ways to impress in spite of its occasionally obvious methods.
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Sep 28, 2011In Heaven is just what you would expect to come out of a summer house in the depths of winter-dreamy and blissful, but at times lonesome and haunting.
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MagnetNov 11, 2011Heaven? or Las Vegas? or, more probably (circa late '90's), Chicago? Hard to predict quite where Twin Sisters will end up, but it's a lovely, leisurely, labile journey all the same. [#81, p. 58]
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Oct 6, 2011So maybe there are a few too many lulls on In Heaven to be consistently engaging, as Twin Sister almost seems to take a breather here and there on the debut.
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Oct 5, 2011Twin Sister has a sound, a well-produced, dreamy, indie synth-pop, slightly funky sound, and In Heaven sees the band blend teaspoons of different genres into that mix.
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Sep 28, 2011In Heaven is a significant advance for Twin Sister, both in the way that it smoothes over and clarifies its original aesthetic and in the way it explores a handful of new avenues.
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Sep 27, 2011Twin Sister live up to their advance press here: They're a good band with room to grow, and a couple great songs.
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Sep 26, 2011As with their other work, In Heaven is intriguing but not completely satisfying, but that intrigue is tantalizing enough to keep listeners guessing.
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