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Paint The Fence Invisible Image
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66

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  • Summary: This is the second album for the Massachusetts-based indie rock duo.
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  1. The Cambridge collective employs its considerable--and considerably appealing--strengths with gleeful assurance. Euphoric cross-hatched harmonies; gobs of fuzzy, low-end guitars; and various embellishments (mellotron, organ, Casio synth guitar, etc.) make the whole shebang sound like one big, loopy carousel ride at a cracked carnival.
  2. Paint the Fence Invisible couples sparseness and creative vibrancy, with every untreated strum and vocal crack complimented by a subtle twist in the expected arrangement.
  3. Drug Rug have allowed a bit of the drawl of their early work to carry over here, and even when they're playing it fairly straight, there's something slightly twisted about their melodies.
  4. Under The Radar
    70
    They are retro-pop Boy Scouts who will leave each listener a little better than when they found them. [Summer 2009, p.60]
  5. At more than five minutes, 'Noah's Rules' is the longest song on Paint the Fence Invisible, symptomatic of the album’s most crucial problems: too much and, simultaneously and somewhat paradoxically, much too little.
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