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Cryptacize have made an album that sounds welcomingly familiar for fans of Cohen’s aesthetic, but it won’t likely gain them a much wider fanbase.
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It stands alone as an album which is well-rounded--there's not much here which is lacking in quality, but much is lacking oomph.
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With their second album, Cryptacize have given us something much more sure-footed, and with a little more depth, than what we’ve heard before.
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When their sound tends towards the more coherent and homogeneous (even on the excellent title track) they risk falling victim to an imitativeness, or perhaps simply a lack of aesthetic ambitiousness, that threatens to overwhelm the originality that they bring to the table.
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Mythomania’s level of sophistication is not hard to achieve and it certainly does nothing to elevate Cohen’s abilities, his contributions to Deerhoof being markedly superior.
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Cryptacize's latest squanders the band's natural resource: singer Nedelle Torrisi.