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VanGaalen's a skilled musician, and compositionally the pieces are well-constructed, but there's nothing on the record that truly blows you away.
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Like his debut, it could use a bit more focus and some editing, but the basement hits feel is part of the charm with VanGaalen.
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Beautiful, thematic, meticulous, revelatory, and challenging.
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Skelliconnection feels more like a series of singles and EPs rather than one statement.
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Despite any bugaboos, he's a plain great songwriter, and Skelliconnection is firmly above average.
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Like Infiniheart, Skelliconnection is undermined by seemingly random sequencing, still feeling more like a hodgepodge compilation than an album with a purposeful arc... But Skelliconnection still stands as an impressive document of VanGaalen's intuitive and inventive songwriting.
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There's not much to any given song on the album to distinguish it from its obvious sub-genre counterparts.
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His music could be a good deal better than it is.
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Skelliconnection--most of it, at least--suffers from restless legs: Instead of gathering another unassuming set of downer-pop, it kicks, bloops, bleeps, and occasionally charges, dropping back to the mellow moods only when it's otherwise exhausted.
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Under The RadarVanGaalen proves beyond doubt that he is perfectly capable of rocking out as much as any four-piece group without losing any of the intimacy and creativity established on his first album. [Summer 2006]
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UrbAt times reminiscent of Neil Young. [Sep 2006, p.139]
User score distribution:
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LeroyMSep 2, 2006good dude
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BobBuilderAug 29, 2006Close to being unlistenable. In comparison to the first one it's a total travesty.
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MikeAAug 28, 2006