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Like Homesongs, this record reveals more with each listen, burrowing its way into your consciousness and becoming a welcome part of your musical DNA.
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Much of Love and other planets is too accessible to be denounced, and too melodically strong to be ignored.
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Enchanting, celestially lovely and as effective at lifting you out of yourself for forty-five minutes as an early evening cruise in a space shuttle.
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Comparing Homesongs to Love and Other Planets, as is sadly unavoidable with a debut and its follow up, reveals the former to be the more immediate, the more melodic and the more understandable. However, Love and Other Planets, despite a glossier overtone, is the detailed, developing record.
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Entertainment WeeklyRhythmically tricky acoustic arrangements showcase his soaring, sensitive-bloke vocals. [29 Sep 2006, p.81]
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If you’re looking for music to make heartfelt love or fall asleep to, this here’s your record.
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MojoA much grander affair [than his debut]. [Jun 2006, p.103]
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Whilst retaining the heartfelt beauty of his debut album, it is the subjects tackled on Love And Other Planets and the experimentation with which this is done that really shows Adem is reaching for the stars.
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New Musical Express (NME)Adem mirrors the ambitious approach of Sufjan Stevens. [13 May 2006, p.41]
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Though the album can get somewhat repetitive, Adem's polished production and intimate songwriting minimize any flaws.
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For the kind of soul-caressing folk bobbins Adem aspires to deliver, go with Grizzly Bear.
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Although more full-blooded and more rhythmically experimental in places, '...Planets' isn't a giant stylistic leap from ''Homseongs', but then, why would you want it to be?
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Sophisticated, literate and surprisingly affecting.
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Though the production value of Love and Other Planets intermittently occupies the same close corners that Homesongs did, Ilham's newer work presents a concept that is far too vast to for him to have covered on his rather intimately constructed solo debut.
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Love And Other Planets is a thing of beauty.
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SpinNever succumbing to mere cleverness, Adem achieves a singularly intimate expansiveness. [Nov 2006, p.96]
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Adem's devotion to Radiohead leads to some unnecessary noise-making, but also to some highly necessary exploration of disjointed song structures.
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UncutA softly glowing and unerstated album. [May 2006, p.98]
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Under The RadarAt his best, he Adem creates adventurously and almost unfathomably intricate sonic constructions... At his worst, he treads a little too close to the territory of every other somber, compositionally astute singer-/songwriter. [#14]
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UrbFragile in its struture, the album is stunningly precise and hauntingly familiar. [Sep 2006, p.131]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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toddwOct 16, 2006