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Both intimate and powerful, Quit +/or Fight is a striking achievement.
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Quit +/or Fight may lack the immediate melodic punch of the band's debut-- it forsakes pristine strums for skewering electric guitar and scrappier arrangements-- but what the record sacrifices in warmth, it makes up for in atmospherics.
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Like R.E.M.'s vaunted Murmur, these songs are most adept at creating worlds for the listener to enter and engage, which may be different with every spin.
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Under The RadarThe songs aren't quite as immediate as their self-titled debut, but... they're making folk friendly for the electronic age. [#10, p.115]
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Like Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Quit +/or Fight flirts with perfection, a cohesive collection of all-too-fleeting pleasures.
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Entertainment Weekly[Their] plaintive, country-tinged tunes are quietly lovely. [12 Aug 2005, p.79]
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Alternative PressMost of the songs... aren't nearly as interesting as the album's title, offering only random snippets of truly engaging music. [Sep 2005, p.156]
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Orth would do well to pay more attention to whipping his songs into shape next time around.
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MagnetNearly buries itself in interesting ideas that are ultimately unrewarding. [#69, p.98]
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Passively waiting to be noticed, Holopaw’s second album, Quit +/or Fight, is like the kid who never raises his hand in class but whom everyone knows is the smartest in the room.
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Quit +/Or Fight is in a select catalog of records able to build songs out of studio arrangements that never seem contrived or overdone.
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A work far more potent and lasting than their debut.
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There's enough diversity amongst these 11 songs to showcase the band's unique talents.
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UrbAt times it can feel like the Flaming Lips locked in a log cabin with a bottle of morphine. [Sep 2005, p.119]
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Holopaw's delicate, subdued second album lacks their debut's sharp peaks and valleys.
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It is clear Holopaw know how to unearth beauty when grounded in the harshness of reality; they also have the wisdom to leave the indisputably beautiful moments just as they found them: ready and able to elevate the soul.
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Imagine a highly narcotic Shins with even more subtle instrumentation and you're getting somewhere close.
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[Has] a mysterious backwoods vibe worthy of Murmur-era REM.