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A highly successful debut release.
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UrbIt's mighty moody stuff for a debut, but it's carried off just right. [Nov 2004, p.100]
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Under The RadarPractically bursts with lusciously arranged, mesmerizing songs that marry traditional rock instruments with electronic adornments. [#7]
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The band doesn't quite manage to reconcile its mannered appropriation of a distanced, underground frigidity with its boisterous forays into abrasive, psych-tinged garage rock, but this is probably a good thing, because it's this resistance to homogeneity that gives them the sort of edge they'd otherwise lack.
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The band's saving grace is its commitment to and execution of its textural aesthetic, owing as much to David Lynch's oneiric odes to Los Angeles as any musical counterpart.
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For those who missed Nico’s erotic darkness the first time around, Midnight Movies have found the recipe.
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What it ultimately comes down to is style versus substance. Once Midnight Movies matches the latter with the former, the results should be nothing short of stunning.
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A solid set of shadowy songs with driving melodies.
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Even if this was an instrumental album it'd be thoroughly charming.
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DeeL.Feb 3, 2008
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aryarMar 5, 2005absolutely mesmerizing album. the songs may not all be memorable but you want to listen to them again anyway because you want more.