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- Summary: The band's first album on the Kill Rock Stars label was produced by John Congleton.
- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Positive: 20 out of 24
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Mixed: 4 out of 24
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Negative: 0 out of 24
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Now We Can See is very much a record about vision, death, disease, perspective, and, er, turning into a fish (?) but its great expressive anchor is the elated desperation that gives punk both its wickedness and its promise.
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Now We Can See might not be fist-clenching Thermals fans’ first choice, but it shows there’s way, way more to the band than fist pumping yellers. They’re built for the long haul.
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Indeed, as their debut for Kills Rocks Stars, Now We Can See is an album fit to carry the torch in 2009 for one of the underground’s most fearlessly exciting labels.
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While there's nothing here quite as thrilling as 'A Pillar of Salt,' the standout from their last album, it's impossible to deny the adrenaline rush of 'I Called Out Your Name' or the title track.
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Now We Can See is bursting with clear-headed explorations of the ways that fear and neuroses hold us back from truly living, winkingly clinical examinations of the rote machinations that consume our lives, and tales of the savagery at the basis of modern existence.
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On their fourth record, the tempos are slower, the guitars thick and meaty, the rants kinda melodic, the thoughts impressionistic.
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It is in reality a bit boring, a bit generic, and a bit aggravating.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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ZachBApr 9, 2009Best record of the year so far. Now we can see is a collection of ecstatic moments that never falters for a moment.
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MarcApr 10, 2009The Thermals are my favorite band, and this is their best, and most fully realized album.
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DwightHApr 9, 2009I can't seem to stop playing this. Just fantastic.
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AndyK.Apr 15, 2009
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JonJun 8, 2009
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