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Jul 31, 2012While Major has a good solid handful of inspired moments, none of this material comes close to approaching the plane as that Fang Island were operating on before.
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Jul 30, 2012This is the main strength of Fang Island's songwriting, their ear for power-pop catchiness. But they've also implicitly revealed their fatal flaw: they don't give you enough of a sense of suspense and release which makes those climaxes your favourite parts.
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Jul 26, 2012Major moves some distance away from Fang Island's core aims, and their first record's core strengths--instead offering up a collection of tracks which do far too little, for far too long.
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Jul 23, 2012Much of this record deals in warm West Coast pop, its hair-rock extensions grafted on to hazy melodies and harmonies