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- Record Label: Our Secret Record
- Release Date: May 19, 2009
- Summary: The third album for the all-girl trio from Brooklyn, New York.
- Record Label: Our Secret Record
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Pop, Electronic
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Positive: 10 out of 15
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Mixed: 5 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Some bands make a third album; others make something more like a third refinement of "the album." This feels like the (charmed) latter.
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You can slice up its track-by-track constitution--a gently sung, interesting turn of phrase here, an evocative chord progression here--but it is a beautiful, haunting creature as a whole, and a poignant testament to the power of simplicity.
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Thanks to Monahan and the strength of the songs the trio wrote for the album, this stands as Au Revoir Simone's best work so far.
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Snoozy delights from the polyphonic twee whose outright nerdiness is charming.
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Essentially, Still Night, Still Life is a fun, carefree listen and doesn't pretend to be anything more. As an added bonus, it's also a clear improvement over the band's past works as well.
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Listen to Still Night, Still Light for what it is and its unlikely you will end up disappointed.
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MojoOver the course of a whole album their light-as-afeather mix of glacial keyboard, breathy vocals and mid-tempo time signatures begins to grate, and you wish producer Thom Monahan had made them take more risks. [Jun 2009, p.99]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Nov 3, 2010
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