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Jun 4, 2013Into 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.
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Sep 17, 2012The debut album from Liverpool girl-trio Stealing Sheep strips the style of all Wicker Man cheese and stuffs it full of modern relevance.
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Sep 4, 2012It is, all in, a fantastic first effort.
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Aug 31, 2012Hugely impressive debut LP from the Liverpool trio.
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Aug 31, 2012When these three Liverpool lasses let their freak-folk flag fly their abandon is contagious. Their voices are great, which helps, but it's the unexpected instrumentation that really seals the deal.
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Aug 31, 2012A marvelous record packed with charm.
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Aug 31, 2012For all Stealing Sheep's maverick influences, it's the small details that stand out on this beguiling debut.
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Aug 31, 2012An album of wonderful surrealism.
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Sep 4, 2012There are times when Into The Diamond Sun hits a lull, most notably around the midpoint.
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Aug 31, 2012Into 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.