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Sep 10, 2013The album shrewdly brings order to the disorder, without streamlining away the band’s agreeably quirky identity.
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Sep 10, 2013Ultimately, you’ll get as much out of On Oni Pond as you put in; you might find yourself putting it on as background music, then letting other tasks fall by the wayside as you try to decipher how these little ditties pack so much punch.
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MagnetSep 3, 2013The most enjoyable weird record of its career. [No. 101, p.52]
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UncutSep 3, 2013It's poppier than ever before, with big hooks played with funk and bossa nova fills, fat Balkan brass and imaginative lyrics full of bug-eyed images. [Oct 2013, p.71]
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Sep 19, 2013On his band’s fifth album, On Oni Pond, the experimental-rock showman sharpens his Frankenstein mash of genres down to a gleaming point and plunges it deep into his carotid artery.
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Sep 17, 2013Man Man have crafted an album here that, without betraying their old fans, makes their music accessible to a wider audience.
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Under The RadarSep 3, 2013Sure, the album treads little new ground, but this is a band that's done more than enough boundary-pushing in its lifetime to earn a little slack. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.92]
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Alternative PressSep 3, 2013Man Man are still digging around in a diverse bag of influences. Fortunately, they keep pulling out winners. [Sep 2013, p.90]
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Sep 10, 2013So while softer and more empathetic the band isn’t quite tamed yet; On Oni Pond is a Man Man album through and through, delivering an occasionally bizarre and fantastical look at the very real human condition.
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Oct 2, 2013On Oni Pond, their fifth, is quite possibly the closest they will ever come to being considered de-cluttered.
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Sep 9, 2013Maturity suits the group, and "Pink Wonton," "Sparks," "Paul's Grotesque," and "Head On" have all the makings of breakout singles with their fun, memorable choruses and subtle yet clever musicianship.
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Sep 13, 2013in the end, most of it turns out hypo-real, turns out less enticing and engaging than its eroding object, and this more than anything else is what makes On Oni Pond such a disappointment.
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Sep 6, 2013Each album in the band's discography has benefitted from a sense of chaos, an always-looming and welcome threat that things could come unhinged at any moment. The uninspired and wearisome On Oni Pond never creates such tension.