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Aug 21, 2015Gardens & Villa have granted themselves a new lease on their artistic life, and have produced one of the year’s best rock albums.
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Aug 21, 2015While the songs on Music For Dogs aren’t as richly arranged and composed as those on the previous two albums, that may be by design.
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Aug 17, 2015On balance, Music For Dogs kind of ends up resembling a bag of chocolate misshapes: weird-looking and questionable, but still somehow oddly loveable.
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Aug 21, 2015It’s the well-crafted and thoughtful piece of music that one expects from Secretly Canadian.
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Aug 20, 2015It's the songs rather than the production that will keep repeat listeners coming back, even if they don't notice at first, or 20th, or 50th, and the marriage of the two works so well that folks are likely not to care why.
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Aug 17, 2015If Dunes was their exploration of the bleary-eyed haze of romance, then Music For Dogs is the clarion call of lucidity, cutting through that fog, certain and electrifying.
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Aug 17, 2015[The hammered piano is] a slightly overdone element, but there’s much to enjoy here in the group’s disenchantment with the dubious benefits of email, blogs, search engines and telecoms.
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Aug 17, 2015While Lynch and Rasmussen manage a keen awareness of how technology will continue to shape us, the way they process that fear feels tired, not adding anything new to the conversation.
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Aug 31, 2015To its credit, it's very listenable and the band were having fun while recording it. However, the potential in lieu of this makes it that much sadder that Gardens & Villa didn't take more time to polish the sounds of last year's Dunes.
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Aug 21, 2015Gardens & Villa’s self-conscious, spindling attempts at regression and societal contemplation are admirable and occasionally catchy, but there are so many other albums--Reflektor, Kid A, even the oft-maligned, ahead-of-its-time Metal Machine Music--that navigate the intricacies of technology and society more compellingly and less heavy-handedly that you can’t help but write it off as another brick in the firewall.