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Dec 14, 2010The results pitch beautifully crafted, poignant songs and heartfelt vocals against foggy, ethereal production.
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This is ambience in which to indulge, though occasionally the structure of the songs becomes ragged, as if a little bit too much late night medication has been taken on board. That doesn't spoil any of the songs, but it just makes them that bit weirder.
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Antique keyboards pulse, fretless basses thrum and a variety of voices echo in and out, underlying the trippy feel and making this pretty much the most scintillating and daring record of the year so far.
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Relayted isn't quite as much fun as it could've been. (Though the shimmering "Faded High" could be an actual pop hit.) But Olson has found the right people to make his utterly unique lite-FM fantasies a reality.
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UncutRelayted manages to be both comfortingly familiar and devastatingly futuristic. [Jun 2010, p.90]
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Q MagazineAlt-rock supergroup create new genre: stoner AOR. [July 2010, p. 132]
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With a slower pace and dreamier, echo-laden feeling than the original, guitars sounding somewhere between Morricone and the Cocteau Twins, it's an inspired nod back to a still underrated team of artists that works equally well on its own.
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This is lush, involving music that takes stated influences and sculpts them into something genuinely there.
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While many atmospheric bands of late seem to shy away from any remotely commercial sounds, Gayngs have produced a record that let its melodic accessibility compliment its denser qualities.
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So Relayted is both better than it had any right to be, given the concept, and about as good as you could expect from the musicians involved.
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