- Record Label: DreamWorks
- Release Date: Apr 17, 2001
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It's one of the best rock and roll records in years... the disc is a layered, beautiful thing that touches on every influence the band has revealed through its years with a refined production style that sounds at once edgy and glitteringly smooth.
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13 tracks which magically blend heavenly guitar weavings with penetrating melodies.
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What's most striking is simply that they are able to take such a drastically different tack with this album and still end up sounding like the same band.
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Bucks expectations and actually makes good on the indie rock promise of the band's full-length debut, 1998's overhyped albeit underwhelming I Become Small and Go.
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Time -- and a bigger production budget -- has lost Creeper Lagoon's fuzzy, scatty edge to a fuller, more cohesive sound.
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Entertainment WeeklyBold indie-pop melodies with judicious dashes of dream pop and electronica, set to big-money production. [4/27/2001, p.119]
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But with gems like “Keep From Moving” and the country-tinged "Under the Tracks,” and even the vaguely disturbing, second-hand Bowie of “Lover’s Leap," the Creepers rein in their messier instincts, paring the proceedings down to smart, singalong and ultimately giddy jangle-pop.
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Full of solid songwriting and catchy melodies that do not pander to the cliches so often found in mainstream pop/rock albums.
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Where most rock bands that try to play pop forget that pop music requires pop songs, Sefchik and Laguana are constructionists in the classic pop tradition.
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A far more accomplished work than anyone suspected this bunch of deadbeats capable of.
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The material is maddeningly inconsistent, sometimes in the course of the same song.
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MarkKAug 6, 2003