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Oct 13, 2011The Suicide-meets-Can growl that opens "Green and Blue," for instance, may be a familiar element in other revivals, but Cronin puts enough of a hooky spin on the feedback rampage to help make it stand out as the album's first down-the-line success.
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Nov 15, 2011We're treated with music that demonstrates a perfect niche between pop-accessibility and zany experimentation.
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Oct 13, 2011Thanks to Cronin's studio drummer, producer, and fuzz friend, Ty Segall, the record has plenty of dirt all over it, placing the overarching tone of the album somewhere between Velvet Underground's Loaded and The White Stripes' White Blood Cells.
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Oct 13, 2011It's a rarity, though, when kids successfully switch from absorbing listlessness totransmitting it themselves. That's the case for Mikal Cronin, who takes these circumstances and makes something of it that is big and varied and hyperactive.
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MagnetNov 11, 2011Cronin learned how to pack garage/punk fuzzbombs with big hooks as the Moonhearts' frontman, and he hasn't lost the ragged-and-reckless urgency here.[#81, p. 55]
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MojoJun 28, 2012A debut that will fry your ears and break your heart. [Jan 2012, 100]
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Oct 13, 2011On his eponymous debut, Mikal Cronin proves he can hold his own.
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Mar 1, 2012Mikal Cronin a master of crafting the impressionistic pop gem--accessible, catchy, ambrosial, and evocative--and that's a rare and peculiar talent.
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UncutOct 18, 2011Small, but near-perfectly formed. [Nov 2011, p.90]
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