Putting The Days To Bed
- The Long Winters
- Band Name: The Long Winters
- Record Label: Barsuk
- Release Date: Jul 25, 2006
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90A dazzling collection of songs, Putting The Days To Bed cements Roderick's reputation as one of the best songwriters working today.
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Roderick's knotty tales never wrap up neatly--and they're all the better for it. [4 Aug 2006, p.69]
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80It's Roderick's lyrics that really grip. [Nov 2006, p.118]
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Putting the Days to Bed finds Roderick writing his most intimate lyrics to date while also building upon the radiant pop sensibility of 2005's Ultimatum EP.
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It's apparent that great care was taken in the making of this record as the meticulous production radiates through the music on every song.
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77Putting the Days to Bed is a solid effort-- a step in a promising new direction.
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Roderick has a disarming command of how swelling choruses and careful harmonies can push a song from good to great.
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These are good songs, catchy enough to claim a place in your head while grounded by enough passion to put them close to your heart. It's just that the Long Winters have proven themselves capable of even better than that.
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Mastermind John Roderick packs an endearing, nuanced indie-boy voice and a bucketload of bittersweet pop-rock melodies. [13 Jul 2006, p.105]
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70Addictive listening. [Aug 2006, p.80]
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Even though Days To Bed is littered with the sort of tunes that indie pop fans obsessively search for, it suffers the same fate as the group's previous releases. By the time you reach the final 25% of the album, you're more than ready to go to bed - and not in a good way.
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70A substantive collection of back-to-basics indie rock.
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70Bed... opts to crank the volume knobs a little, with wildly divergent results. [#73, p.100]
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The first chunk of Putting the Days to Bed consists of the kind of big-chorused, proudly conventional pop songs summers are made of... Elsewhere Roderick's voice and lyrical acumen fail him.
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A few... tracks, such as "(It's A) Departure," will stick with you, but Putting the Days to Bed falls shy of expectations. [Summer 2006]
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Occasionally, Roderick gets in the way of himself and makes the proceedings more difficult than they should be. [Sep 2006, p.214]
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If in the future Roderick puts more brain power behind making his music as adventurous as his lyrics, the Long Winters' albums should only get better and better.
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