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Feb 6, 2012At the end of the day, Kevin Barnes is really trying to make good pop. Paralytic Stalks is just that, bombast and all.
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Feb 7, 2012Paralytic Stalks feels like a marathon at times, but it's a trek worth repeating.
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Feb 10, 2012[Barnes has created] the best experimental discordant noise pop he's worked on since 'Hissing Fauna'.
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Feb 8, 2012Musically, Stalks is a tour de force, filled with colorful new sonic tricks.
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Feb 7, 2012Paralytic Stalks is a record made by a genius or a hoity-toity psychopath depending on your perspective--call it whatever you want, but it certainly isn't boring.
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Feb 7, 2012For all its songwriterly craft, of Montreal's experiments make Paralytic Stalks one of the more compelling efforts in the band's long discography.
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Feb 6, 2012Barnes has definitely taken a step in right direction.
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Feb 14, 2012Convoluted as his words and ideas are, they're surprisingly singable, in all their mad profusion.
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Feb 13, 2012There is ... a marked orchestral fluidity throughout, which lends itself to the experimental instrumental passages that permeate the record.
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Feb 8, 2012Paralytic Stalks is a fascinating listen, for both old fans and new.
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Feb 7, 2012Of Montreal grow less accessible with Paralytic Stalks, but it's respectable how unconcerned Barnes seems with anything besides staying true to his freakily fractured vision.
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Feb 7, 2012Paralytic Stalks isn't an Of Montreal album stuffed with steakhouse jingles. But therein lies the charm.
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Feb 6, 2012For much of Paralytic Stalk's first half and even for most of the more unhinged second act, Kevin Barnes strikes a near-perfect balance between pop mastery and a delightful sort of weird.
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Feb 3, 2012Despite its heart of darkness, Paralytic Stalks is a deceptively gentle, rambling record that gains integrity but loses focus via the strong suspicion that it was recorded more for the benefit of Nina Barnes than for us.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 38
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Mixed: 3 out of 38
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Negative: 8 out of 38
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Feb 7, 2012I waited for a peaceful moment in the busy work week to listen to the album with full concentration. Iâ
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Feb 8, 2012