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- Summary: The Canadian indie band's fifth album is its first on the Arts & Crafts label.
- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 11 out of 14
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Origin: Orphan is even more extraordinary; a howling, mechanistic piece of post-rock in the vein of Godspeed You Black Emperor!
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Origin: Orphan has a similar tour-de-force feel to the first Arcade Fire album: the sound of loneliness and heartbreak gift-wrapped in bundles of sonic joy.
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Origin: Orphan is the sound of The Hidden Cameras finally proving they can make records as wham-bam powerful as their performances, with deliciously sumptuous results.
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Q MagazineTruely, there's no one like them. [Dec 2009, p.127]
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UncutNestled between krautrock clatter and art-school drones are tracks that feel like stadium-sized anthems, particularly the Coldplay-meets-MGMT chugger "He Falls To Me" and the Afro-pop singalong "Underage". [Dec 2009, p. 97]
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The point is that all of the Hidden Cameras is in here, but it’s not all shined to a high polish and adorned with neon lights, and that works an interesting effect.
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The result is an awkward balance of personal exploration which they refuse to commit to, and a relentless chirpiness which is becoming increasingly unnatural.
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