Reservoir
- Fanfarlo
- Band Name: Fanfarlo
- Record Label: Canvasback/Atlantic
- Release Date: Oct 13, 2009
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London-based collective Fanfarlo’s debut is a carefully orchestrated treat.
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80The air of melancholy on display throughout is as enticing as Beirut's. Impressive. [Nov 2009, p.94]
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80Reservoir is a neat, considered, and polished piece of work that is unrelenting in its charm.
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Fanfarlo are similar fare, and that’s a perfectly fine thing to be. The band make pretty, guitar and organ-led indie, with discreet swirls, parps, and trills of brass and strings.
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70Reservoir is as fine a debut as you might hear all year, but while the band’s sheer happiness to be playing music is unutterably apparent and serves it well, where can it go from here?
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'Good Morning Midnight,' a piece which, unlike the rest of the album, leaves you hankering for more. [Fall 2009, p.62]
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60At times, this means overloading slight ideas, but when they get it right, as on the glorious 'Finish Line,' the results are irresitible. [Nov 2009, p.104]
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The album runs out of steam toward the end, but the first few tracks are gold. [Nov 2009, p.109]