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Aug 28, 2012It's easy and buoyant, but not sound enough to stay afloat for much longer after the record ends.
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Aug 30, 2012Woodland tunes are not rare and only a few tracks here get the heart racing and stave off a bad case of bradycardia.
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Sep 4, 2012They manage to satisfy the listening needs of die-hard Fleet Foxes fans, but fail to truly carve out their own unique musical identity. This isn't to say Poor Moon doesn't offer up some great moments-they really do-just not ones that stick with you long after the record is over.
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Aug 28, 2012Poor Moon turns out to be a wisp of a record, intentionally light and certainly promising but also oddly--and perhaps ironically--weightless.
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Oct 8, 2012Poor Moon still feels like its developing, like it's unsure of what it will be yet. This makes their first full-length an uneven, sometimes frustratingly safe record, but it also makes it an album of some promise.
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Aug 28, 2012A pleasant and inoffensive endeavor, it'll do well to keep any Foxes fan satisfied for the remainder of the season. But don't be surprised if boredom sets in by fall.
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Q MagazineAug 28, 2012It consistently fails to match their parent group's most sublime moments. [Sep 2012, p.110]
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Aug 28, 2012The result is a sort of mannered, formalist rusticity that only occasionally develops a convincing momentum.
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Under The RadarAug 28, 2012Few records in recent years have sounded this much like a toss-away popsike record from the mid-'60s. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.113]