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MagnetFeb 11, 2013The album preserves--even perfects--the spirit of its delirious debut, while fashioning something even bigger: brighter, tighter, better, more. [No. 95, p.55]
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Jan 11, 2013While James Murphy's production skills are missing this time, the songs themselves are still strong. [Feb 2013, p.90]
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Jan 15, 2013Love Sign isn't all that different than what shaggy-haired kids were playing at their local live-music clubs circa 1979. The indie-rock buzz is just added perspective.
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Jan 22, 2013Free Energy know that what they're emulating is about bliss not meaning, and they're savvy enough to embrace pop simplicity without condescending to it.
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Jan 18, 2013Love Sign escapes almost all of the sophomore LP pitfalls.
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Jan 15, 2013The follow-up moves the nostalgia dial to that hair-feathering, creepy tank-top-wearing end-of-the-Seventies moment when AOR rock, Cali soft rock, disco and New Wave melted into the same pot of fool's gold.
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Jan 11, 2013For a record that never tries to be anything more than a fun rock 'n' roll adventure, Love Sign strolls out unscathed.
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Under The RadarJan 11, 2013It's rare that any of these cut reach the ecstatic heights of their 2010 debut, Stuck On Nothing. [Jan-Feb 2013, p.87]
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Jan 11, 2013Love Sign dips a little too far into the Fountains of Wayne kiddie pool.
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Jan 16, 2013The slick varnish he [producer John Agnello] slathers on doesn't do this group any favors. Still, the melodies stick to your brain like flypaper.
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Jan 15, 2013These songs just lack that certain oomph to separate Free Energy from the thousands of groups who have sang about girls before.
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Jan 15, 2013If you can get past that feeling and embrace the polished, shiny surfaces, and satin-jacketed AOR clichés, then Love Sign delivers a pleasing dose of nostalgic, good-time (almost) rock & roll.
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Jan 15, 2013Free Energy can put a damn pop hook together--problem is the execution.
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Mar 25, 2013Love Sign‘s attempts to update Free Energy’s basic sound to include ‘80s influences is well-intentioned. But like everything else on the album, it only works in fits and starts.
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Jan 16, 2013Love Sign's belief in the righteousness of its intentionally big, dumb songs being big, dumb and nothing else ultimately sets Free Energy up to fail.