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Motion To Rejoin Image
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: The second album on Matador Records for the band based in New Mexico.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 20
  2. Negative: 2 out of 20
  1. The farther they wander, the more magnetic they become.
  2. Q Magazine
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    Motion To Join makes the druggiest meanderings of the similar "Spiritulized" sound full of pep. [Dec 2008, p. 126]
  3. With hooked beaks and mighty talons, Brightblack Morning Light rip and gut the carcass of psychedelic rock, leaving it exposed and decomposing on the side of the road.
  4. Overall, though, the music is worth wading through everything else for.
  5. Brightblack Morning Light's intentions and actions are indeed admirable--they're committed advocates of much more than just drug legalization--but Motion to Rejoin struggles mightily to articulate a focus aside from tranquility.
  6. At 50 minutes, Motion to Rejoin's jams drift off into the ether, but that's their whole charm: Surrender to the flow, and you'll never know where the time went.
  7. New mexican drone rock duds. Tune free zone.

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