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- Summary: The third album for the NY-based experimental rock group.
- Record Label: Young God
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Experimental
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 17
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Mixed: 4 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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There is so much to go back to, beyond cheap thrills and catchy, yet dimensionless, hooks. An album for the ages.
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Suspending cynicism for a moment, this is their strongest release to date.
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The WireAlthough the hard-hearted and selfconsciously cool may dismiss them as the avant folk scene's answer to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, that's no reason to deny one's self the joyous singalong harmonies of 'Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead." [Oct 2007, p.71]
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The results are not only boot-in-the-ass surprising, but also the best thing the band has done to date.
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There’s some exceptional songwriting here.
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In the end Love Is Simple is less than the sum of its parts. Its balls-out rock is fun but hopelessly overloaded (like, how many vocal tracks do these songs really need?) while its softer sections sound like brief intermissions before the guitars pick up again, making them relatively limp.
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UncutMany of their songs go on for weeks, doing little but reiterating banal refrains, badly confusing hypnotic with merely repetitious. [Nov 2007, p.96]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Negative: 1 out of 6
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MattD.Nov 19, 2007I crank this album up all the time.
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JasonS.Oct 7, 2007
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WesselK.Oct 2, 2007
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TylerOct 8, 2007I can't stop listening to this. It's hard to not let the hippie-acid-love trip intoxicate you. My favorite record of this year.
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kdeOct 8, 2007
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MaxA.Dec 12, 2007The most pretentious record of the year. Load and obnoxious band.
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