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Universal acclaim- based on 234 Ratings
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Positive: 206 out of 234
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Mixed: 13 out of 234
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Negative: 15 out of 234
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Nov 3, 2010Among the top 5 albums of all times for me. I loved this so much, every single song everything in this album speaks to me in a way very few things can. I love this and it makes it hard to wait for the next album from Panda Bear.
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SkalaBMay 7, 2007
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JiffSJun 24, 2007
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voodoocookieJul 12, 2007
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JoMay 6, 2008Boring...nothing fresh about it, I don't get the hype.
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RuK.Nov 2, 2007How can you morons even compare this to Pet Sounds? 3/10 for a mostly terrible album. So many people fall for hype nowadays.
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EBApr 4, 2007Boring.
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DaveApr 5, 2007I am absolutely sickened by the torrent of positive commentary this album has received. It is flatly uninteresting and should be approached with skepticism, not with the expectation that this is a "great" album.
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hirachiFeb 27, 2008I came home from work one day and heard the Beach Boys playing. I asked my roommate in the living room where he got these Smile-era outtakes. He told me it was Panda Bear. We listened to the whole thing and all I could think was BEACH BOYS DEMOS.
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DanielJ.Apr 8, 2008This is just too abstract and weird for me. Why this album is in the toplist is for me a true mystery.
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JackRauhkesMay 26, 2007
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LaccharismaFeb 15, 2008
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DanSDec 9, 2007I can't get enough of this. It's slowly been inching it's way higher on my year-end list since it's release. Really great sound.
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BrianMar 19, 2007Fantastic.
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TMApr 5, 2007Good, bit overrated far as I'm concerned. Last Animal Collective was better, I'd put my money towards that over this.
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RobertFDec 4, 2007
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BrentoniOct 24, 2007Fantastic album, put beach boys and four tet in a blender and what do you get? panda bear. Very trippy and thought provoking throughout.
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yoshimipinkMar 23, 2007beautiful.
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gmanApr 16, 2007Amazingly, it genuinely is every bit as stunning as all the reviews suggest. Whether it's the best Animal Collective related album is perhaps debatable but it undoubtedly towers above anything else released this year. This is what Brian Wilson's Smile should've sounded like. One really wonders about anyone that doesn't rate this album highly.
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JIApr 17, 2007sorry, it's just not that good. yes, it has harmonies, but it has little else going on. comparisons to brian wilson should be taken with a grain of salt. the vocal sound is similar but these are basically 2-part chants. there's a lot of hype in play here.
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JohnA.Apr 2, 2007Gorgeous.
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TigerMay 5, 2007people that knock this album really don't know much about music or probably have a hearing problem. person pitch is the album that every musician that likes pet sounds wished they could have made. the melodies are classic and top notch
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musicfanMay 9, 2007
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YourMomJun 26, 2007tiz shit
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NeilCSep 5, 2007
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RicardoC:Sep 6, 2009Every little sound and beat fit perfectly, as his voice.
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ElliottMMar 19, 2007Playful, harmonic, and busting with positive energy, this is, quite simply, the best album I've heard in 2007. Why listen to anything else?!
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AaronSMar 22, 2007Beautiful, trippy, warm, eccentric and lovely. All rolled into one piece of pop perfection. A better album you will unlikely hear this year.
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DavidBMar 20, 2007This will be a tough one to top this year! It's bursting at the seems with creativity and almost overwhelmingly joyful, something that's missing in much of today's music. Person Pitch should make Noah Lennox a household name, and it just might make top 10 for the decade!
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YvesJMar 25, 2007Le meilleur album de ce début d'année. Ouais, ouais !
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Shak.Mar 28, 2007so andrew, you think you can steal my description of the album and use it as your own? and to think, of all people to do it, it was YOU. disappointed. but yes, amazing album.
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NikkiGApr 15, 2007Fell in love with it the second I first listened to this album... and that about sums it up.
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TonyFApr 4, 2007So amazing, something new and fresh once again brought to us by a member of animal collective. This also, sadly, is much better then Avey Tares new lp with the mum girl.
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AntoineGApr 9, 2007Often pop, sometimes experimental, always good
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NathanSMay 11, 2007Ok, some of you guys just don't get it. I'm curious to see what you (people giving this album 0's) would call "good music". As for the album, brilliant and beautiful. Quite arguably the album of the year.
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k.May 6, 2007Every track reminds me of the taste in my mouth after waking from the dream of being at a large banquet eating savory foods; the taste is cotton-like saliva cakes.
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joesMay 7, 2007On firts listen I thought-uh totally derivative Beach Boys copy- after few listens I think this album is a masterpiece- Very different type of psychedelia- I have been listening to this compulsively- the more lyou listen- the more you hear- like any really well constructed sonic excursions
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JaddyPJun 2, 2007
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GuyHJun 8, 2007Not an album that I'm always in the mood to listen to but when the time is right this album is the perfect collage of sounds. Also, definitely a 10 listen minimum album otherwise certain elements stick out too much in the mix and distract you. Everything mellows in time and then you can relax into this album. Just bear with it (sorry)
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StephenA.Aug 20, 2007A magnificent concept album and best work by Noah Lennox so far. Person Pitch is a throw-back to Bryan Wilson, but certainly has its place in the 21's century. Love it.
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zjepsenJan 1, 2008
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SimonWJan 2, 2008Pleasant enough.
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AndrewP.Dec 30, 2008
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AdamP.Jan 8, 2008Amazing album. Love the reverb, vocal harmonies, and upbeat guitars.
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MarcFeb 1, 2008This is not a 'love it or hate it' album; it's a 'love it or don't get it' one. It is very cohesive, never self-indulgent, and just a joy to listen to. Thank you, Panda Bear.
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JakeJ.Sep 17, 2008This album succeeds in recreating, and, in a sense, updating the the Beach Boys sound. Of course, with the Beach Boys, you'd get actual songs as well, and those are what is missing here. What remains to be impressive is the sheer amount of hype that is being generated around this release. In five years, no one will remember it.
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JohnA.Jan 5, 2009Gorgeous.
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ChristosM.May 22, 2009
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J.K.Dec 14, 2007
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AlexRDec 28, 2007
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LordPoppycockVonTinselDrawersDec 30, 2007Best Album of 07 hands down. A masterpiece. This hasn't left my ipod since the day I got it. And Neil C, I'll be back in 3 years for my money.
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DerrickMar 21, 2007
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SeanMar 22, 2007Nothing short of a masterpiece.
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garrettjMar 22, 2007in my eyes best album of the year. 07 is on fire! This album holds the aspects iof animal collective which ive wanted to see expanded. Its just beautiful. Im positive i will listen to this in 10 years time.
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joelMar 22, 2007now i know what it's like to be a crack head.
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AlexAMar 22, 2007Best Animal Collective group or solo work since "Here Comes an Indian".
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JavierMVMar 23, 2007Exciting, creative, lifefull...Un album excitante y radicalmente creativo e inspirador estoy muy sorprendido por su frescura.escuchaló rápido...
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N.O.SmithMar 23, 2007My favorite album of 2007 so far. Absolutely incredible.
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A.ConnorMar 25, 2007
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mikeypMar 27, 2007the thing about this is that voice. the melodies and instrumentation are fine, just fine. It's panda's voice just pouring out of the speakers like milk n honey that make this album a hit.
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andreslMar 29, 2007strangely addictive and full of good vibes. underneath all the samples and complicated production work lays some pretty amazing tunes. very unique.
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MusicHealsMar 29, 2007His music is an exile far away from all speed, a cosmical hotel, where you can feel proud to be a human, having the gift to SMiLE.
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mikefMar 31, 2007wow! - important music. superlatives other reviewers used are well earned. hear to believe / hear to be moved. SMiLE comparisons justified. person pitch more immediate & modern, but no less wunderbar. to be performed as live gigs - at ottobar in balt., md & in phila., pa at 1st unitarian church, etc. Lord, glad to have survived to get to this point in time.
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AdamMMar 30, 2007Simply breathtaking.
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mikeyfApr 12, 2007phantasmagorical.
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[Anonymous]Apr 13, 2007Listening to this album is like sitting on the beach, on a perfect summer day, with a cool breeze blowing in my face.
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HexumNApr 15, 2007This one must be for music snobs only. This is seriously the single most worst album I have ever heard and will probably ever hear in my life. How it managed such great reviews is well beyond me. Painfully awful. Absolute garbage. I'm sorry to sound so negative as I'm usually very open to music, but wow, this is just horrible. Wow.
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SeanTApr 18, 2007
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ToddWApr 27, 2007
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SDKApr 8, 2007A fantastical album of pink fire for the masses. An album such as this only comes along every so often, like a child with all the answers to the universe. Panda Bear does it right, and his own way paving the way with a style that is sure to stick around and impress. Expect permutations of this kind of sound from the hipster kids very soon...
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markhMay 12, 2007this is my summer album. true, it i difficult to get into because panda bear likes his lack of typical song structure, but i think hes really pushing boundaries. the melodies are sunny and catchy, but theyre piled against a single chord for 6 or 7 minutes and then the whole song changes to something completely different. i boggles my mind. best songs: comfy in nautica, take pills, et all.
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MichaelCMay 13, 2007
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JoshuaKMay 16, 2007I cannot fathom a better CD being released this year. The music is gorgeous, and the vocals are largely crystalline and rather delicate. Some of the songs have a sort of tribal sound to them brought forth through chanting and repetition. This is a transcendent album not to be overlooked.
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BooyanoneMay 28, 2007This record is very cool. Though, the sound for some gets old, for me it is nice to hear something a bit similar and a bit different that is pushed out of the record industry. Listening over and over, one can pick out a different layer of the songs each time. I would recomend this to anyone.
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SeanAMay 7, 2007Speaking of not "hearing it" and heads in "nether regions", I'd like to know what Todd thinks this shares with Arcade Fire. Reverb? It has a lot of that and it gets to be irritating after 2 tracks. It has as a few nice moments but not enough to warrant all the 9s and 10s. This is an OPINION so don't let it upset you if you think the album is going to outlast the year.
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RGJun 22, 2007
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RobertJun 3, 2007Album of the year. One would be hard pressed to find harmonies that rival those in good girls/carrots and bros.
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JorgeWithaJayWithaJayJul 20, 2007Like The Avalanches and Manu Chao before him Panda Bear takes us on a trip of mashed melodies and modern psychedelia and its influences clearly centered towards that magestic and perfect pop of Brian Wilson...Panda Bear is a trip well worth taking! Enjoy it with a bud...
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MaxwellJul 20, 2007I have no problems whatsoever calling Person Pitch as good an album as Pet Sounds. This is one of the best pop albums ever committed to tape. Turn off the lights, put on your headphones, drop the needle on Person Pitch and let it wash over you ... several times if necessary. Panda Bear loves you.
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ChrisE.Sep 16, 2007i first listened to this when it came out, didn't think much of it other than "well, it's interesting". but now that i've downed a glass of vodka and don't really feel like listening to anything else, its jamming alright
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BradC.Sep 25, 2007I'm thinking that Paul "tape loop" McCartney, John "Revolution 9" Lennon and Brian "Pet Sounds" Wilson had a baby and when it grew up it sounded like this. Lights out and loud. A beautiful album.
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CatQ.Mar 13, 2008Not worth the tens but none the less really good to listen to. Just to chill. It usually bothers me if an artist sounds alot like another one (like the Beach Boys) but I don't really mind the Beach Boys echos in it. In my opinon, don't listen to it in terms of a context, just listen to it as it is.
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JyotirmayaD.Mar 27, 2008I generally don't like albums with the ambient sound going on - especially if it sounds too "new-agey", but this album makes the ambient sound funky and cool. And it needed at least 2 or 3 listens for me to enjoy it... But I initially gave it a chance because I could tell I was listening to something worthwhile.
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RikkyC.Mar 31, 2008
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DerekE.Mar 4, 2008Seriously breathtaking. If you aren't convinced, give it some time. If you still aren't convinced, something may be wrong with you.
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SebM.May 31, 2008My first reaction was "How did it get so much good rates ?". I was about to give it a 2 out of 10. But then I decided to listen to it several times, and the structures slowly appeared. It's finally kinda pleasant, but certainly not a masterpiece for me. The harmonies are gorgeous but it lacks of melody.
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patrickOct 3, 2009A real journey if you're willing to really let go and take it. Hear it on good speakers in a relaxing space for the best experience, this album was not meant for headphone listening, it needs natural room reverb for everything to gel together properly. There's also really inspiring and refreshing messages in the lyrics, ones sorely needed in today's world.
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mattHMar 14, 2007the best stuff here was previously available elsewhere and somewhat over-shadows the rest of the album, but I'll be damned if "Bros" and "Comfy in Nautica" are anything short of amazing...
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joshmMar 15, 2007i really cant get over this album, it really isnt like anything else out there. it is so refreshing and makes it feel like summer. young prayer is also awesome.
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ChrisAMar 21, 2007This record alone could get me through a year's worth of boring music. Just what a boy needs who can't wait for warmer weather...thank you panda bear. I practically get a tan just listening to it! Can't wait to see what we get with the new animal collective record!
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CameronWMar 21, 2007Definitely the best of 07 so far, I just get such a positive feeling when I listen to this album. Too bad about the AMG review though...
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kevinkMar 26, 2007a magical album
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MJ88Apr 16, 2007amazing, angelic indie pop. it's the best so far this year.
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EricCApr 17, 2007What an awesome album. Easily rivals anything he or Animal Collective has ever done. If you have a hard time swallowing experimental indie rock, then don't waste your time. But it's too bad you can't appreciate it, because this really is amazing. It's only flaw is that you're never gonna sing along. Sometimes it sounds like he's singing backwards.
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CameronSApr 23, 2007I cannot stand this at all. Preview the album and see how awful it is. This is just horrible.
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Busted...May 17, 2007I wonder how this album would sound stoned...probably pretty spectacular. Might even be overwhelming. Panda bear has a pretty dense soundscape; with every listen i notice something more I might try getting stoned again, but until then I stand by my rating...not quite perfection.
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JohnBJun 18, 2007Best album of all time.
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EdM.Sep 15, 2007Easily my favorite album of 2007. Sure you don't have to listen to critics, but sometimes I suppose they're right. Really, really cool Beach Boys-esque psychadelia.
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TomPNov 11, 2008
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BethanyL.Feb 18, 2008I've tried, I really have, but I just don't get it. I give it an above average based on the forward thinkingness of Noah and the meditative aspects of the album. But it just sounds like the echo effect/reverb is giving it the unity and gorgeousness! everyone speaks of. It isn't bad but I don't get the hype. A bit boring for me.
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Awards & Rankings
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UncutMagical. [Apr 2007, p.114]
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His careful attention to detail and masterful use of vocal harmonies are unparalleled in modern indie rock.
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Paste MagazineIt's as lucid a marriage of the eneffably strange and crayon-bright catchy as 2007 is likely to see. [Apr 2007, p.58]