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- Artist(s): Jon Fell, Rob Allum, Pete Aves, Marcus Holdaway
- Summary: This is the first album in four years for the London-based indie pop group led by Sean O'Hagan.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Electronic, Indie Pop, Chamber Pop
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Mixed: 6 out of 13
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Apr 26, 2011In Talahomi Way The High Llamas have produced another album far greater than the sum of its component parts. It is unlikely to create any major impact on the current musical landscape but it augments and improves it in its own special little way.
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Apr 26, 2011Talahomi Way's details can speak louder than its actual songs, but this isn't a criticism: here, O'Hagan and crew use those details to make an album that is equally pastoral and meticulous, and listening to it is like visiting a perfectly arranged topiary garden.
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May 26, 2011It's a body of work that begs deep listening, the better to divine the wild kindness at its core.
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May 4, 2011He seems perfectly content to let these small-wonder songs shuffle out unobtrusively into the world, and it's come to feel like a comforting spot to return to every couple of years or so.
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MojoMay 17, 2011Ultimately, The Llamas seem like a Heston Blumenthal of sound, stimulating through a kind of weird science. [May 2011, p.112]
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UncutMay 2, 2011On songs like "Ring Of Gold," the Llamas essay a beautifully melancholic take on sunshine pop that's pure and true. [May 2011, p.88]
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Q MagazineMay 17, 2011After a promising start too much else glides by as a wash of warm, organic--yet unremarkable--background music. A Shame. [May 2011, p.116]