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Pan Am Stories
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Metascore
73

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  • Summary: The two-disc release from San Francisco-based Joe Knight includes a 13-plus minute track.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Dec 2, 2011
    80
    Pan Am Stories is an early masterpiece for Knight, an ambitious photographic travelogue constructed out of the raw materials of bedroom psych-pop.
  2. Mojo
    Jan 31, 2012
    80
    It stretches out the crashed edits of 20120's Suburban Tours, to something more diffuse and soulful. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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  3. Beats Per Minute
    Dec 2, 2011
    77
    The fact that this doesn't sound like a solo project at all is a testament to the success of its expansive vision.
  4. The Wire
    Dec 6, 2011
    70
    It works best when blended with his more adventurous tendencies. [Nov 2011, p.64]
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  5. Pitchfork
    Dec 2, 2011
    62
    What makes Pan Am Stories worth returning to is the scope Knight works within, where elements of prog, folk, and psychedelia blur in and out of focus.
  6. Consequence
    Dec 2, 2011
    60
    There aren't as many powerful moments as on, say, a Ducktails record, but fans of that sound will find more to love here.

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