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Feb 14, 2012Like its predecessors, Plumb is polite and smart, arranging its unceasing collection of hooks like books on a shelf.
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Feb 10, 2012Forget hidden depths, Plumb exposes every inch of the Brewises' brilliance.
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Feb 9, 2012Plumb is a good bet for the end of year polls already.
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Feb 21, 2012From the ground up, Plumb is through and through the work of a band that has absolutely mastered its craft.
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MojoFeb 27, 2012Plumb is a delicious tasting menu of rock history. [Mar 2012, p.103]
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Q MagazineFeb 22, 2012The sheer volume of ideas bustles everything along. [Mar 2012, p.113]
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Feb 21, 2012Plumb is a rich, complex album, with the songs spilling over into each other.
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Feb 21, 2012A record that stands out as a career highlight in an already very impressive and inspiring career.
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Feb 21, 2012Plumb is one of the top-shelf albums of 2012 so far because of Field Music's openness to continually tinker with pop music's DNA.
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Feb 16, 2012The result is something that feels like an exotic journey and a familiar stroll all at once, and the comfort-to-exploration ratio is perfect.
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Feb 16, 2012Perhaps the finest distillation to date of the various elements that comprise the group's distinctive sound.
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Feb 15, 2012In what might be the biggest compliment I will pay any band this year, the thing that the album most reminds you of is the medley on 'Abbey Road', in the sense that it's hard to pick out individual 'highlights' in what is an endlessly evolving collage.
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Feb 15, 2012It's a killer.
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Feb 13, 2012Sprightly, desperately alive and joyously nostalgic, Plumb sees Field Music waving an exultant goodbye to the shipwrecked post-punk revival they'd always been wary of and sailing into classic art-pop waters.
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Feb 10, 2012An exhilarating and ambitious collection, it should bring Field Music a deservedly larger audience at last.
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Feb 9, 201215 seamless songs that consistently keep interest high and ideas varied.
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Feb 9, 2012These are terrific songs worthy of celebration.
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Feb 7, 2012Their end product is one of the freshest and most exciting guitar records since... well, since Field Music (Measure).
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UncutFeb 3, 2012Impeccably arranged, the whole thing plays out like an extended, pragmatic version of "A Day In The Life." [Mar 2012, p.82]
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Mar 5, 2012Quite simply, Plumb is how pop music should sound.
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Feb 13, 2012This is Field Music at their most baroque-- a record of sweetly melodic miniatures that coalesce into form only long enough to tumble into the next meticulously designed song suite.... [Yet] Plumb is a little too fussy. Great hooks rise up, but are quickly abandoned in the rush to the next good idea.
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Feb 24, 2012Musically, Plumb is both rapturous and jumpy.
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Under The RadarFeb 3, 2012It's quite clear the brothers Brewis are plumbing that existential angst for all it's worth, in their singular way, with increasingly deft and able hands. [#39, p.68]
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Feb 3, 2012Some of the straighter songs can seem a little underwhelming – for example, A Prelude to Pilgrim Street is a decidedly flat glam blowout. But such lacklustre moments are few.
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Mar 1, 2012Intellectually and musically, it's more like a rose bush in winter: thorny, twisty, and hinting at tantalizing beauty. The more time you spend with this album, the easier it is to get caught.
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Feb 13, 2012Field Music remain more impressive than lovable.
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Feb 13, 2012One minute it's like listening to early Genesis, the next Smile-era Beach Boys, the next XTC and the next, um, 1980s Genesis.
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Feb 14, 2012Unfortunately it feels mostly like an over-concentrated mess of misplaced ambitions.
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Feb 17, 2012Plumb feels unsure of how ambitious it wants to be, but instead of landing in the middle of the road, the lack of focus and uncertainty create an incoherent mess.
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Feb 9, 2012There's an awful lot of music crammed into Plumb's 35 minutes, but it's rarely organized into the most attractive shapes - and on the few occasions it is, they alter course within seconds and head off in some less appealing direction.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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Apr 26, 2012