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Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings
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BaileyDec 18, 2005A great CD -- reminds me of very early REM, with a dreamy, multilayered sound and amazing hooks. I've already had four songs on "repeat" -- it's been years since I bought a CD that made me do that.
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fernandovNov 20, 2005Para quem gosta de EELS, aqui tem uma versão mais. Muito interessante, uma bomba
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AndySNov 9, 2005Good, but not as good as Emblems.
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mattaDec 28, 2005
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ChadSFeb 21, 2006Matt Pond PA sounds like a less wussy-Toad the Wet Sprocket. If Pond sold out, he could easily have written "All I Want". I think the best track is "It is Safe". I can see the beach Pond is waxing melancholic about. There's more adventurous bands out there, but how is that Animal Collective album going to sound in twenty years? You're more likely to reach for "Several Arrows Later".
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Perhaps this slightly bland direction is one that Matt Pond PA was always headed making this record a totally expected arrival point. But somehow their earlier brand of chamber pop, full of lush strings, and Pond's cloying but touching lyrics seemed to promise something a little more than the pedestrian virtues of Several Arrows Later.
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Pond's songs are the alt-rock equivalent of what used to be called New Yorker short stories: subtly realized domestic epiphanies often involving tame nature imagery.
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UrbA lush, relaxing listen. [Jan/Feb 2006, p.103]