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- Summary: Actually, they're from Sweden. Numbering a Polyphonic Spree-esque 29 members, the Emanuel Lundgren-led collective made their full-length debut in 2006 with the unusually chipper 'Friends,' which hit the States in early 2007.
- Record Label: Mute
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 17
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Mixed: 4 out of 17
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Negative: 3 out of 17
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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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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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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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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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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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All too often, I'm From Barcelona are either forgettable or just beyond cloying.
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UncutSurely--surely!--this is an elaborate hoax. [Oct 2006, p.110]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 3 out of 15
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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.
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ChadVMar 19, 2007
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BobSApr 8, 2007Charting in teritory only the bravest of men face. I hate indie, but I think I get this album. I can relate.
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SebastianMar 26, 2007
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DylanSMay 28, 2007
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ToddWMay 3, 2007
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ZachApr 9, 2007
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