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  • Summary: This is the debut album from the Liverpool trio.
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  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. Jun 4, 2013
    80
    Into The Diamond Sun fully captures their kaleidoscopic vision over 11 songs bookended with the terrific The Garden (full of warped guitars, nursery rhyme harmonies and Blakian innocence) and Bear Tracks, a haunting, mesmeric sound mosiac.
  2. Sep 4, 2012
    80
    It is, all in, a fantastic first effort.
  3. Aug 31, 2012
    80
    An album of wonderful surrealism.
  4. 80
    The debut album from Liverpool girl-trio Stealing Sheep strips the style of all Wicker Man cheese and stuffs it full of modern relevance.
  5. Aug 31, 2012
    70
    Into the Diamond Sun shows the trio has its own ear for how to combine and recombine those elements [moody psychedelic jamming, entrancing female vocals and slow-burn tunefulness], not least thanks to a balance of sprightly clarity and sudden shifting in the arrangements that feels more like a hip-hop mix transposed onto past approaches than just a jam.
  6. Sep 4, 2012
    70
    There are times when Into The Diamond Sun hits a lull, most notably around the midpoint.
  7. Sep 5, 2012
    30
    Into The Diamond Sun is somewhat equivalent to being pelted with macaroons; at first sweet, delicate, even impressively constructed, but soon proving not just boring, but intensely samey, sickly and unsatisfying.

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