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Nov 21, 2012It's a brilliant, mainstream indie rock album from a band who have for too long operated on the margins of, for want of a better word, the 'scene.'
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UncutOct 26, 2012Prekop's lyrical ruminations on distance and direction never lag. [Dec 2012, p.76]
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MagnetOct 26, 2012[Runner] is something more akin to Eliot Smith, but airier, and with more synth. [No.92 p.58]
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Q MagazineOct 23, 2012Lurking beneath are the electronic pulses of post-rock and the occasional ripple of slip-slide jazz, ensuring that while Runner is approachable, it's always one step ahead. [Nov 2012, p.104]
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Oct 15, 2012It's an album which succeeds by virtue of elegance, and which knows a hell of a lot without ever seeming overly knowing.
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Oct 4, 2012Runner [is] an exceptional Sea and Cake record, and if it's not their best since their classic album, Nassau, it is at least the most surprising since then.
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Sep 21, 2012The results are elegant and beautiful, as all Sea and Cake albums are, but also slightly experimental.
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MojoSep 19, 2012Theirs remain an abstract, liminal brand of pop, with Prekop's vocals as delightfully gossamer, and his lyrics as intriguingly impressionistic as ever. [Oct 2012, p.88]
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Sep 18, 2012The Sea & Cake could have been in danger of becoming an indie-band-by-numbers, but 'Runner' is performed with all the vigour and aplomb of fresh-faced youngsters and executed with the deftness of touch of grizzled old hands.
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Under The RadarNov 30, 2012Fans won't be disappointed and newbies may well be stunned. [Oct/Nov 2012, p.131]
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Sep 18, 2012Runner shakes out as one of this band's most subtly varied albums, and it can be an immersive listening experience if you give yourself over to it.
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Nov 30, 2012It is great to hear them testing out other feels without losing an ounce of the consistency that has made them to toast of Chicago for all these years.
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Sep 25, 2012Runner is worth it. Aesthetically, it's one of the band's most synthetic albums, continuing along a path they started on near the turn of the century.
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Sep 21, 2012Runner is The Sea and Cake's most unusual album, in spite of being so rhythmically conventional, and altogether gorgeous.
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Sep 21, 2012The Sea and Cake's music is more about mood than narrative, as with the largely acoustic Harbor Bridges' gorgeous evocation of summer's end.
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Sep 20, 2012This striving for variety, and the fact the Sea and Cake run with every idea regardless of how soon it tires, is also one of their charms.
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Sep 18, 2012Runner signal a return to the "heritage" S&C sound, balancing motorik pulse and unbridled delicateness, regaining some of the spirit and intention that had begun to flag in the process.