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This is a fantastic, passionate and wonderfully eccentric debut album that's also a thrilling advert of what's to come.
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Bypassing traditional melodies and obvious aesthetics, Mystery Jets have arrived at an unusually original pop album of the most exuberant order.
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UncutA mini masterwork of magic-realist Britpop melodrama. [Apr 2006, p.108]
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Though the restless time changes and laser-show synth overtures betray prog-rock's ostentatious influence, the tightly constructed songs here (all but two of which stay under the five-minute mark) bristle with a passion and purpose that belongs only to the truly committed and composed.
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"Making Dens" is an immensely graceful, charming record that does a flawless job of capturing the air of good-natured abandon that defines the Jets' live shows.
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If there's a lesson to be learned from 'Making Dens', it's that there's nothing to be feared from pushing the pop envelope that little bit further.
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They have a habit of getting it very right and very wrong.
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MojoThere are a couple of songs hidden away in the backwaters of their patchy debut which hint at something much better. [Apr 2006, p.88]
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Q MagazineIntriguing, ambitious, but flawed. [Apr 2006, p.116]
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SamGMay 13, 2008
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haeranc.Jul 5, 2007nicely shambolic, as people say.
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NickFApr 23, 2006Amazing debut from the Mystery Jets. Songs like You Can't Fool Me Dennis and Soluble in Air are immediate classics.