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Wait till you hear 'Norrlands Riviera', the best thing Belle and Sebastian never did. Blissful.
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UncutThey've come up with a non-vocal album that surprises and delights. [Nov 2008, p.112]
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As beautifully assembled as parts of Seaside Rock are, a couple of genre-specific tracks underscore its stopgap nature.
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This is a collection of instrumentals that, when fully peeled back, reveal beauty within, and are fit to grace many a chill out collection. It's just a shame that they stop frustratingly short of revealing more personality, which vocals would have achieved.
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Q MagazineThe results are comprehensively bemusing, but Swedish is an exquisitely lulling language to listen to, and so the whole effect is oddly hypnotic. [Nov 2008, p.118]
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Seaside Rock amounts to a log of underhashed production ideas from the test kitchen.
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There’s nothing outstandingly terrible about Seaside Rock, but that’s what ultimately makes it kind of boring.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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Jun 27, 2012