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Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. Mojo
    May 17, 2011
    60
    Ultimately, The Llamas seem like a Heston Blumenthal of sound, stimulating through a kind of weird science. [May 2011, p.112]
  2. Uncut
    May 2, 2011
    60
    On songs like "Ring Of Gold," the Llamas essay a beautifully melancholic take on sunshine pop that's pure and true. [May 2011, p.88]
  3. Apr 26, 2011
    60
    On Talahomi Way, the Llamas are in fine, optimistic form, taking a holiday outside of time, to a place where Brian Wilson converses with Shuggie Otis over mai tais, major seventh chords are once again heard in pop songwriting, and distortion is something that happens in a funhouse mirror.
  4. Under The Radar
    May 27, 2011
    50
    Several tracks fade in a different instrumental passage at the close,m including some containing ideas that are incongruous with the preceding music. [May 2011, p.94]
  5. May 5, 2011
    50
    An overall mood of sub-tropical Pacific torpor (albeit well conveyed and executed) does get a mite soporific over the course of an album, or a handful of them, or a career's worth.
  6. Q Magazine
    May 17, 2011
    40
    After a promising start too much else glides by as a wash of warm, organic--yet unremarkable--background music. A Shame. [May 2011, p.116]

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