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Nov 16, 2011Spills Out is a satisfying album that puts a unique spin on otherwise trite indie-pop touchstones and a marriage of dissonance and charm seamless enough that, at times, it's almost difficult to tell one from the other.
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Nov 16, 2011A few strong moments don't make a full release succeed.
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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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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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Nov 28, 2011Pterodactyl's sound most figuratively Spills Out. Drink up and enjoy.
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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 29, 2011It takes a session of attentive listening to pinpoint it; zone out for a few seconds and it's easy for one track of grit, fuzz and tension to bleed into another.
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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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Dec 8, 2011They've made a sophisticated, thinking listener's indie-pop record.
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Jan 6, 2012Though much of Spills Out seems to zip by in a blur, it's assembled with enough care to never quite spin out from its center.
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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.
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Nov 16, 2011A little has been lost in Pterodactyl's act of translating itself into a pop band--but overall, Spills Out manages to keep it all in.
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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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Nov 17, 2011Thing start out Brooklyn Noise rock, but the second half of the album gets downright Nuggets-worthy. [Oct 2011, p.102]