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Dec 8, 2011They've made a sophisticated, thinking listener's indie-pop record.
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Dec 8, 2011At every turn and every track the album is pushing up the RPMs to the point the engine begins to whine, smoke and threaten to explode.
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Dec 8, 2011The dichotomy between the agonies of face-melting and beatific singing has long been a Pterodactyl motif, but this time the guitar wizardry takes a nonetheless threatening backseat to the structure of the songs.
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Dec 6, 2011At times, Pterodactyl wedges in too many layers, so that the parts blur together in a formless murk.
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MagnetNov 21, 2011The imitations/references spill out... But Spills Out is considerably less interesting and more cerebral, when Pterodactyl sounds like other bands.[#82, p.59]
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Nov 16, 2011Spills Out isn't the best record of its ilk to come out this year, but it's not the worst, either.
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Nov 16, 2011A few strong moments don't make a full release succeed.
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Nov 16, 2011It's only when Pterodactyl embrace their underlying pop core and ratchet up the jangle--see the breezy "The Break" or the '60s sunburst "Searchers"--that Spills Out makes an effective splash.