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  • Summary: This is the second full-length release for the Detroit indie rock band.
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  1. Mar 22, 2018
    80
    Where earlier tracks tended, endearingly, to drift and wander, these new ones move not faster but with more purpose, as if they have somewhere to get to.
  2. Mar 22, 2018
    80
    Longwave channels the low-key indie pop sound of (Sandy) Alex G and Frankie Cosmos. Bonny Doon have proven their ability to transform their complex songwriting and vivid melodies into experiences that resemble those long hours of elusive conversations we crave.
  3. May 25, 2018
    70
    Longwave is a gently simple record but one which manages to exert an almost hypnotic pull.
  4. Mar 23, 2018
    63
    There’s a stark immediacy to the production on Longwave, rendering the band’s simple arrangements and basic chords without a shade of embellishment. They’d much rather use negative space than a dynamic flourish.
  5. Uncut
    Mar 22, 2018
    60
    Longwave is languorous and amiable. ... The largely unchanging pace prompts yearnings for more frequent shifts from second gear, however. [May 2018, p.26]
  6. Mar 28, 2018
    60
    The Detroit quartet's debut album for Woodsist is at times striking and catchy, but also finds itself digging up the same nostalgia-seeking melodies that showed some promise from Bonny Doon to begin with.
  7. Q Magazine
    Apr 10, 2018
    60
    Longwave is more improvisational, and the results are even more spidery than before. [Jun 2018, p.109]

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