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Aug 25, 2014Each of the nine songs here (this album, unlike Why There Are Mountains or Lenses Alien, feels less like a suite and more like a collection of individual songs working together toward a theme) merits extensive and attentive lyrical consideration, though such an analysis deserves a treatment not feasible in a standard-length review.
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Sep 2, 2014It’s their most immediate album--but not necessarily their simplest.
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Aug 20, 2014Cymbals Eat Guitars certainly have done right with LOSE; it’s an impeccably beaten, teary-eyed but smiling document to a frighteningly exhilarating time of one’s life and beacon to march onward--momentous to anyone in their 20s, and even us still neurotic old guys.
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Aug 28, 2014Channeling profound loss, once-buried emotions, and a stronger sense of songwriting, these Staten Islanders have created something cathartic, life-affirming, and important.
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Aug 25, 2014The band may love the sounds of Built to Spill and Superchunk a little too much, but they’re also far too adventurous to settle for apery, least of all on LOSE. It’s their best work yet.
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Aug 29, 2014A sprawling, complex, and fascinating document of American indie rock.
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Oct 13, 2014LOSE is captivating because it uses all the right tricks.
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Aug 26, 2014For its themes of loss and longing, its wide-eyed sense of wistfulness, for all of its hopefulness in misfortune, Lose ends up being a win. And a major one at that.
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Aug 25, 2014This time around, the specifics are there. And though each isolated moment may not be immediately relatable, they create a universal portrait of our struggle with the loss of youth and the arduous task of soldiering forward while a part of us grasps for those milestones of the past.
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Alternative PressAug 20, 2014It all makes for a remarkable, incredibly moving piece of work. [Sep 2014, p.106]
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Aug 20, 2014At their core, Cymbals Eat Guitars is still the same band as before--just bigger and bolder, more sharpened and focused. And they’re better for it.
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MagnetSep 18, 2014This third LP corrals sophomore sprawler Lenses Alien without killing its spirit. [No. 113, p.53]
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Aug 26, 2014While the album may not fully scale D'Agostino's high bar, in attempting to make that leap Cymbals Eat Guitars have made their best album to date as well as a touching goodbye to a friend.
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Aug 25, 2014The band swings for the fences with the first two songs.
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Aug 22, 2014Stronger than ever is the group's proclivity for shiny pop.
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Aug 20, 2014It’s all over the place stylistically, but then no one ever said that feelings had to make sense.
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Q MagazineAug 29, 2014Joseph D'Agostino's voice can get a little grating: too often he's hysterically over-emoting. [Oct 2014, p.107]
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Aug 26, 2014Handspringing between the rowdy folk-punk antics of "XR" and the sweetly sordid "Child Bride," it's a riveting elegy.
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 1 out of 17
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Negative: 2 out of 17
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May 8, 2020Other than the drums being a little too open sounding this album is beautiful. Get the lyric book and settle into the layers of the guitar.
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Apr 12, 2018Sprawling, passionate, and catchy - what more could you want from an Indie record?
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Sep 18, 2014