Positive Force
- Delicate Steve
- Band Name: Delicate Steve
- Record Label: Luaka Bop
- Release Date: Jul 10, 2012
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Jul 9, 201270It's a light, breezy affair that seems to take its title quite literally.
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Jul 9, 201280Positive Force will uplift you.
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Jul 11, 201270While other guitarists this talented would want their shredding to be the thing you take away from an instrumental album, Marion uses it as one tool (a strong tool to be sure, but a tool) in the production of a set of bright, funky, fun jams.
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Jul 12, 201280Through it all, Delicate Steve does what so few composers are able to do: his billowing compilation resonates without words, its sterling procession an otherworldly creation that remains grounded somehow.
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Jul 27, 201278Sit back, listen and enjoy the trip.
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Dec 13, 201280From Clapton to cosmic rock, Afro-pop and experimenting with dizzying ease. [Oct 2012, p.96]
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Jul 9, 201285Happy music can sometimes seem superficial or lacking the emotional depth that music is "supposed to" capture. On the contrary, this album seems enlightened. It's happy and deep and complex and present, all at the same time.
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Aug 29, 201276If there's anything wrong with Positive Force, it's that it's better suited as background music than bearing up to intense listening; while the guitar lines on most of the songs here are deliciously difficult to whistle, they're all essentially fairly similar.
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Jul 9, 201260When Marion makes more creative use of his varied, globe-spanning influences, however, Positive Force is every bit as compelling as its predecessor.... [yet] far too many of the melodic hooks are merely adequate, and he doesn't pull any surprises.
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Jul 9, 201270Marion's guitar and synth bedroom pop project continues to be immediately enjoyable, simply because he never seems to be reaching for something that's outside of his grasp.
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Aug 22, 201275If you're willing to invest multiple listens, dividends of divine pleasure pay off in spades. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.122]