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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock
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Feb 7, 2012It remains delightfully messy and is all the more viscerally resonant.
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Feb 7, 2012Libraries seems huge, a cathedral of the grandiose emotional desperation that Phil Spector and Brian Wilson once framed so dramatically.
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Feb 7, 2012This record is the sound of a young musician being given the right chance at the right time and knocking it out of the park.
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Feb 7, 2012Libraries is chock full of restructured reminiscence, yet doesn't lay any cautions in modernizing pop's landmark, time-honored aesthetic.
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Feb 7, 2012McLamb's voice is still too nasal and uncontrolled at times, and though Burton's production is lively throughout.
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Feb 7, 2012Lead Lover Stuart McLamb has made a tremendous leap in terms of accessibility, scope and arrangement on Libraries
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Feb 7, 2012Libraries nods more to Burt Bacharach, and the record can sag occasionally under the drowsy weight of his influence.