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UrbYou'd have to hate life not to eat this long-awaited, sugar-coated anthology up. [Mar 2007, p.98]
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The group's size makes the white-robed hordes of Polyphonic Spree an obvious comparison, but I'm From Barcelona's taut songwriting renders their numbers largely incidental-- these songs were meant to be shared by many voices.
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The sort of euphoric, sweetly intentioned indie pop that, despite occasionally making Belle & Sebastian sound like Da Lench Mob, nevertheless manages to stay the right side of cloying.
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Depending on your temperament, this translates to either the Feelgood Band Of 2006 or a horrific saccharine overdose.
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Much of the LP's success can be put down to the completeness of the world that I'm From Barcelona create and promptly invite you into.
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An incredible pop record whose lyrics take a backset to the music.
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The album plays like 11 different versions of “Shiny Happy People”.
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Under The RadarThe band has easily found their niche, walking a fine line between twee pop and annoyance. [#16, p.92]
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Paste MagazinePart of what keeps the sweetness from becoming cloying is sthe music's awareness and subtle humor. [Apr 2007, p.55]
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MagnetWhat the album lacks in diversity and lyrical depth it more than makes up for with Technicolor-daydream choruses. [#75, p.98]
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Plenty of listeners will be put off by the unrelenting insistence on major-chord, primary-colour pop, painted with childlike simplicity... but there is an unbridled joyfulness about Let Me Introduce My Friends that could lift the heart of the weariest cynic.
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Lundgren has ample melodic gifts, and most cuts... are pretty damn charming.
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All too often, I'm From Barcelona are either forgettable or just beyond cloying.
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SpinWhile all that harmony is good for revving your sugar motor, no conflict means no relief, just repeated shots of childlike cheer with no chaser. [Mar 2007, p.94]
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The problem is that the 11-song album is exactly 10/11ths forgettable.
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They are a handful of shit, of wan, barely extant songs and feeble musings, of worn gimmickry and careful over-production, aping Sufjan and a dozen others, flung against a cultural brick wall.
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UncutSurely--surely!--this is an elaborate hoax. [Oct 2006, p.110]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 22
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Mixed: 1 out of 22
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Negative: 4 out of 22
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OligamiSep 11, 2007It is horrendous.
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DylanSMay 28, 2007
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TobiasD.May 23, 2007I loved it. I feel like the target of data mining, and I LOVE IT. Cuzz theres always gunna be this little boy inside of me.