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A welcome addition to the avant-garde canon, an album that demonstrates the continuing development and growth of Mice Parade and Pierce.
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It feels more like a transitional album than the next level for the group.
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This is music just about anyone can enjoy, either for close listening or simply ambient sound.
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On Obrigado Saudade, Pierce picks up where he left off on his last few Bubblecore releases, melding post-rock, world music and analog electronics into rich, earthy shapes.
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UrbImagine Four Tet with a band instead of a laptop and you're getting close. [Jan 2004, p.78]
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Each of these compositions reveals not only an imaginative use of trace musical elements, but also a maturing sense of how to arrange them.
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Q MagazineIf a brace of previous albums hinted at genre-defying transcendence, Obrigado Saudade attains it. [Mar 2004, p.107]
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If you enjoy the ear-perkingly dense textures of friendlier experimental stuff like Four Tet and Fridge's Happiness LP, then you can't go wrong here.
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Pierce consistently avoids the disturbance of breakbeats and jump cuts, instead rolling the elements into a smooth melange of sound that references world, dance and folk music, yet transcends all.
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A series of serene and sensuous treasures rich in texture and laden with rapturous instrumental hooks.
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A decidedly pleasant listening experience, if not an altogether important one.