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  • Summary: The ninth full-length studio release for the Canadian indie band led by Carey Mercer was created on an acoustic guitar his father willed to him.
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  1. Aug 27, 2015
    80
    Although warmer, almost folk-rock, Pickpocket’s Locket is as visceral an experience as any Mercer project, albeit in a new way.
  2. Sep 10, 2015
    80
    This is Frog Eye’s most elegantly structured, premeditated, composed album ever. It is also miraculously, unexpectedly the band’s best to date.
  3. Sep 24, 2015
    80
    It really does speak volumes about the groundswell of depth in his writing that a record with stakes this high don't feel like a step out of character, but rather a continuing stride through a storm.
  4. 75
    Mercer has allowed his lyrics to become more expansive and less cohesive. For this reason, they need room to resonate, to sink in.
  5. Magnet
    Sep 22, 2015
    70
    While there's no lack of drama on Locket, it's a missing the bombast of yore--which is to say that if you hated Frog Eyes before, you might dig this one. [No. 124, p.57]
  6. Aug 31, 2015
    70
    Pickpocket's Locket is less furious than most of Frog Eyes' body of work, but if the music doesn't kick as hard the emotions are still there in abundance, and Carey Mercer's songs of love and hate remain compelling and rewarding stuff.
  7. Aug 31, 2015
    68
    It's startling to realize Pickpocket’s Locket is the odd Carey Mercer release you can almost mellow out to. Once you delve deeper than the pleasant aesthetic, however, it's hard not to wish for a few more distinguishing moments to hold onto.

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  1. Oct 1, 2015
    7
    Excellent LP. His trademark grit is toned down on this one, but the intensity is all there, lurking under the surface this time around. TheExcellent LP. His trademark grit is toned down on this one, but the intensity is all there, lurking under the surface this time around. The guitar is taking second fiddle to.. fiddles, so we get some romantic string arrangements that seem totally out of place on a frog eyes lp. Quite a few tracks in the middle don't quite hold up, but, for the most part the composition is strong and there's a good number of hooks scattered throughout. This guy always brings it. Expand