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Romantica charges out of the gate with a new vigor, brightness, and sensitivity that, in retrospect, hasn't really come together within one package for them since maybe Bewitched.
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Largely standard Luna fare: smooth, loungey, literate alt-pop with quirky yet instantly moving melodies. [Apr 2002, p.79]
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The songs are light, the production both relaxed and relaxing... the music breathes.
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80Six albums on and Luna have never sounded better. [Jul 2002, p.112]
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80Buoyed by a blissful, lovestruck mood, this album's sumptuous tone elevates it beyond familiar terrain. [Aug 2002, p.128]
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80By making an album that's utterly listenable without sacrificing its integrity, Luna provides the season's greatest guilty pleasure--without the guilt.
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80It finds Wareham in rare form. [#54, p.95]
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80The smarmy lyrics are back in full force, but the music is so crisp, clean, and catchy that it hardly matters at all.
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80Exuberant and undeniable... if you don't own a Luna album, start here. [Aug 2002, p.112]
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80The songs are simpler, livelier, a little more direct and a lot more hummable.
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78What separates the album from previous Luna product is not so much instrumental alterations as the newly unabashed sentimentality of Wareham's lyrics.
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70Fans of the group's early work might find the album a bit trying at first, but it's still the same old group for the most part.
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70A solid, thoroughly pleasing and engaging record that is certain to delight the fans who continue to pay attention.
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70Minor missteps aside, Romantica is a very good album of compelling, original verses. [#34, p.68]
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67The sonic pleasure of the band's languid guitar balladry still pulses, and bassist Britta Phillips adds pleasant Stereolab-y vocals to some tracks, but there isn't much here you haven't heard before from Luna.
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60Romantica is Luna's most energetic record ever. Which isn't saying much. [Apr/May 2002, p.115]
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Nothing here is as strong as any of the standouts on Luna's mid-Nineties classic, Penthouse, but each of Wareham's songs is well-rounded and pleasantly wispy.
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Just another average album by a band that has proved it can make great ones.
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The swapping out of Justin Harwood for Britta Phillips on bass seems to have enlivened things somewhat, but what starts so promising, sputters as the album progresses.
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Romulus9A Fabulous Album
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