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- Summary: The debut full-length debut for the Massachusetts indie rock band led by Sadie Dupuis was produced by Justin Pizzoferrato.
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- Record Label: Carpark Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock
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Positive: 14 out of 16
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Mixed: 2 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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Jul 9, 2013Major Arcana is a markedly assured debut, one that makes Speedy Ortiz an act to watch. Like its songs, the band’s detonation is inevitable.
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Jul 12, 2013With its quaking rhythms, twisted riffage, and jet-black wit, Major Arcana is a redemptive ode to the broken bones that grew back together a little crooked--the ones that taught Dupuis how to walk in her own weird way.
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Jul 8, 2013Stripping away the frills, at heart Major Arcana is a mournful treasure that asks to be celebrated.
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Jul 8, 2013Rather than merely rehashing sounds of yesteryear, Speedy Ortiz add modern rock ’n’ roll strokes to their take on fuzzy noise pop.
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Sep 16, 2013Its free-falling lyrics reflect Dupuis’s poetic side, and the swaths of guitar rock bands it hearkens back to are good for classifying it, but it’s a record that wraps words around music.
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Jul 19, 2013You may well have to look elsewhere for music that will one day remind you of 2013, but this is still a great, brief blast of noisy, off-kilter rock; a consistent debut which sounds better each time you hear it.
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Jul 8, 2013Major Arcana is certainly not a perfect debut and does have some flaws, but it succeeds in establishing Speedy Ortiz as a band with promise and scope to build on.
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