Light the Horizon
- Bedouin Soundclash
- Band Name: Bedouin Soundclash
- Record Label: Pirates Blend Records / Sony Music Distribution
- Release Date: Jun 7, 2011
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Jun 13, 201180It was inevitable that as his skills matured he was going to move away from the strictures of reggae as a musical style. That maturity is fully in evidence on Light the Horizon, and the songs have indeed spread out into new stylistic territory.
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Jun 13, 201180Bedouin Soundclash's fourth album bristles and fizzes with elegantly understated passion and deadpan punky fury, as the group pursue their muse to various ends of the musical Earth.
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Jun 13, 201170Light The Horizon could very well be their best album to date but, at just 10 songs in 34 minutes, it will not be enough for fans, especially the new ones that are hearing them for the first time.
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Jun 13, 201160This is a solid album with a truly woeful centerpiece.
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Jun 13, 201160White-reggae lovers haven't got a lot to latch onto here, since from the first strums of opener Mountain Top, Soundclash appear to be taking a welcome leap into a Vampire Weekend-type indie vibe.
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Jun 13, 201160All too often it feels like the band are ignoring the part of their name that gives them carte blanche to experiment and toy with expectations.
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Jul 28, 201160They've mastered sounding unhurried but supertight. [August 2011, p. 113]