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- Summary: For the indie band's 10th release, Sam Prekop used a synthesizer to develop some songs before the other band members contributed their own ideas.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Post-Rock
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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