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- Summary: The second full-length release for the Washington, D.C. alternative rock trio was produced by Jonah Takagi and mixed by Collin Dupuis.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Positive: 17 out of 22
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Mixed: 5 out of 22
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Negative: 0 out of 22
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Mar 25, 2019The musicality of It’s Real is deliciously idiosyncratic, yet refreshing and musically progressive.
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Mar 22, 2019blast it loud and blast it proud. This is a summer album. It’s as colorful and sweet-tart as a cone melting in the sun, rolled in crunchies and glitter.
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Mar 19, 2019It’s Real displays the same exuberance and professionalism--not to be taken as a dirty word here, but as testament to the band’s seemingly effortless knack for arrangement and execution--as its predecessor but adds a handful of different moods and textures.
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Mar 26, 2019It's Real is a beefier, buffed-up expansion of the debut's rough-hewn sound, but the added polish doesn't nerf Ex Hex's powers as much as it re-energises them.
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Mar 21, 2019The ten songs are all solid, however, the restrained feeling of the record, especially early on, results in an album more one-note than it should be. EX Hex still rock but urgency is primarily absent, keeping It’s Real from truly ripping.
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May 10, 2019It's Real is a traditional rock record through and through. But like that secondhand vinyl sitting on your shelf that never got reissued, it contains deep, thick grooves that always sound fresh regardless of its dwindling shelf life.
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Mar 22, 2019In these trying times, it’d benefit from being a whole lot more confrontational.
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Positive: 0 out of 1
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Mixed: 1 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Mar 25, 2019
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