Loud Planes Fly Low - Rosebuds
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  • Summary: The Rosebuds bandmates Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp reunite to record an emotional album of failed love and a hopeful future.
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  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
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  1. From heartache and vulnerability through to acceptance and salvaging a friendship when all could have potentially been lost, who needs a plane to fly low when the detail and scenery on offer here in these forty minutes is already far more beautiful, dazzling, and effortlessly uplifting?
  2. Jun 10, 2011
    91
    Making the record was reportedly grueling, but the resultant emotions are the realest felt since the duo's exuberant 2003 debut, Rosebuds Make Out. "Swooning" and "romantic" might be odd adjectives to use at this juncture, but they still apply in full force.
  3. 40
    The Rosebuds instead have limited themselves and recorded an album that's generally good while being limited in its emotional scope and thus utterly disappointing in the long run.

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  1. 9
    As with all Rosebuds albums, there is a somewhat different sound here. Definitely with more depressing tones, but still the odd song of hope. Really a great album, particularly 'Woods', 'Cover Ears' and the title track. Expand
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