Promise Of Love - American Analog Set
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72 out of 100

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  • Summary: The Austin, Texas-based drone-pop qunitet--known to friends and reviewers as AmAnSet--returns with their fifth LP.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. Magnet
    90
    What's miraculous about Promise Of Love is the way the band instills the music with such incredible warmth. [#59, p.85]
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  2. Mojo
    80
    Promise of Love's cyclical episodes unravel at an amenable mid-pace, each one allowed just enough time to establish a mood bfore halting as over-familiarity threatens. [Jul 2003, p.101]
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  3. All Music Guide
    60
    The changes are so minute and the record so unassuming and melody free that it is really hard to care about the band anymore.
  4. Dusted Magazine
    30
    Promise Of Love would be a good joint, by indie rock standards, if the passive-aggressive everyschmuck ex-girlfriend mixed-tape staples on the latter half didn’t suck so badly.

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. adamg
    10
    This is by far their best album to date. The songs are just perfect. Andrew Kenney's vocals are angel-like and the rhythm is tighter than ever. I highly recommend this.… Expand
  2. DanielF
    10
    Subtle, shimmering, and breathtakingly gorgeuos chillout reflection music.

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