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Sun Airway
- Record Label: Dead Oceans Records
- Release Date: Oct 25, 2010
- Summary: This is the debut album for the Philadelphia duo of Jon Barthmus, formally of the A-Sides, and Patrick Marsciell.
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- Record Label: Dead Oceans Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Electronic
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UncutFeb 14, 2011This is a finely paced album, mirroring the rhythm of the calendar and getting choppier as it moves toward the midway point. [Feb 2011, p.99]
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Feb 10, 2011There are times when it feels a bit prescribed; dream-pop by numbers. But when they're at their best Sun Airway have a knack of perfectly balancing melancholy with intelligence and brutal honesty.
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Feb 10, 2011It's the kind of delicate wordplay that perfectly coagulates the dream-like qualities of an album unafraid of exploring a quiet loveliness.
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Feb 10, 2011At times, it almost feels like too much at once, but the band's music is so buoyant that to bring it down to earth too much would be a shame.
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Feb 10, 2011Respectably, Sun Airway do constantly challenge themselves by taking the unexplored route of achieving sturdy compositions through electronic textures, especially in a time when house and nu-rave are fast becoming indie's current electronic touchstones.
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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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