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- Record Label: Pale Young Gentlemen (self-release)
- Release Date: Mar 23, 2007
- Summary: The quintet from Madison, Wisconsin self-releases their debut album.
- Record Label: Pale Young Gentlemen (self-release)
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Pop
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Positive: 10 out of 10
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Thoroughly theatric, Pale Young Gentlemen's measured approach is channeled by the bricolage upshot of their composition.
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It’s a classic first album: A band unpretentiously tangling various genres they--or even listeners--thought would never sound so brilliant together.
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There's a refreshingly human scale to everything on Pale Young Gentlemen--the songs are so strong that the crack of a snare drum and the bowing of a cello, simple gestures as they are, can achieve the band's grand theatrical ambitions.
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The band's eponymous debut is a classy, memorable, and swooning collection of sophisticated pop.
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The Gents waltz their way through these ten sturdy, mid-tempo numbers rarely striking a bum note.
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This music on this self-titled release is perfectly and tightly composed and arranged.
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While Pale Young Gentlemen is frontloaded and slightly naïve like a record of this sort should be, there's more than enough reason to anticipate what they're capable of when they decide to get darker, older, and less gentle.
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Positive: 9 out of 9
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Sep 11, 2011
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carloOct 17, 2007This album is a great surprise from this young Madison band. Definitely worth the rating.
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JesseR.Sep 11, 2007
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FarisR.Oct 18, 2007Pale Young Gentlemen are a pleasure to listen to. Really, what beats "Clap Your Hands"?
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ShaneW.Sep 22, 2007I really like this release. Very fun and upbeat. Don't miss their live show if they come to your town. Every time I see them they get better.
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DavidGOct 21, 2007
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NickP.Sep 10, 2007Fun album. I will definitely pass it along to friends. Give it a try, you'll be pleased.
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