by
Sun Airway
- Record Label: Dead Oceans Records
- Release Date: Oct 25, 2010
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Feb 10, 2011It feels like there are more synthetic things of interest here. There are significantly less organic things--lyrics, sentiments, meaning--that will keep you coming back.
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MojoApr 4, 2011This is a richly textured debut that creates a very agreeable collision between the organic and the electronic. [Feb 2011, p.100]
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Feb 10, 2011It's tuneful enough but, really, the case for the dismantling of 2010's nostalgic apparatus starts here. Less hypnagogic pop, more over-the-hillwave.
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Q MagazineMar 1, 2011It's hardly original, but is frequently beautiful. [Feb 2011, p.123]
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Feb 10, 2011A sense of awestruck wonder permeates tracks such as "Swallowed by the Night", though when Barthmus tries to deal in more human terms, with the inverse "Ebony & Ivory" schtick of "Shared Piano", the results are less successful.