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- Summary: This is the fourth full-length for the Canadian indie-rock band led by Carey Mercer (also of Swan Lake).
- Record Label: Absolutely Kosher
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 12
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Mixed: 1 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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Tears of the Valedictorian is easily one of the best records of the year.
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One listen to Tears of the Valedictorian confirms the group's uncanny talent for creating manic, beautiful and upsetting songs that seem to exist wholly for themselves.
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Tears of the Valedictorian is an incredibly dense record and may take several passes before you can even begin to peel away its layers. That sense of rigor, though, is what makes it so arresting.
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Tears Of The Valedictorian is the band in top form, with Spencer Krug binding meandering tales of post-postmodernist artistic anxiety with wiry keyboards that echo Mercer's morphing vocals.
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It is simultaneously the most resplendent, accomplished record the band has made, with all kinds of songs... that retain the worst, most self-indulgent aspects of one of underground rock’s most consistently imperfect bands.
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Tears Of The Valedictorian may be Frog Eyes' most accessible album, if only because Mercer sings as much as he yelps, and pulls back the reins on the band's thrashy, bashy art-folk long enough to let some melody creep in.
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Before, the most crazed cacophony could impossibly capitulate into swooning grandeur, but now that disparity just isn’t so striking. The dynamic is still in play, but with the edges rounded off, any tension is diminished.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 20
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Mixed: 1 out of 20
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Negative: 3 out of 20
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AmortortakJul 13, 2007
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RobertDMay 10, 2007
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JoelSMay 19, 2007
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JesusHMay 3, 2007Frog Eyes is the coolest band in the universe. Frog Eyes!!!
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DavidVJul 21, 2007
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seandJul 29, 2007
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MattKMay 30, 2007
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