- Record Label: Dead Oceans
- Release Date: Mar 10, 2009
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FilterStart-stop measures, tempo changes and harmonized vocals all make the album a grand listen. [Winter 2009, p.98]
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Alternative PressThe chops are there, the gimmck is there, and hopefully, the fanbase will be there, too. [Apr 2009, p.135]
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Benjamin Verdoes and his bandmates have put together a debut of impressive songs that can be infectious and inviting, but also caustic and surprising.
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Bluesy single-note guitar lines compete with jagged chording, the bass thumps out counter-melodies, strained yelping dissolves into pastoral harmony. Yet it all coheres thanks to frontman Benjamin Verdoes' pop instincts and the band's jittery energy.