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Tender Buttons feels more urgent and alive than anything Broadcast has ever recorded.
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60There are precious moments on here and hints that something truly magnificent could emerge in time, but first Broadcast need to work out exactly where they're going and why.
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It's so satisfying when a band is able to subtly re-invent its sound, as Keenan and Cargill have done here so well.
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Overall, the depleted group's signal is weakened. [23 Sep 2005, p.90]
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68Though it may be too severe a downgrade for some, Tender Buttons is in fact a lovely ugly thing. [#17, p.96]
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70Hypnotic and dreamlike, the album presents a vision of pop music's future glimpsed through the lens of its past.
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80Their best by a country mile. [Oct 2005, p.118]
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80Broadcast have produced arguably their finest moment.
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80The resulting sound is tougher and more insistent, a succession of incessant rhythms layered with fuzziness and distortion.
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A bit of a winner. [17 Sep 2005, p.58]
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75What you have with Tender Buttons is a Broadcast album that listeners might need to spend more time with than expected. That said, this is still a Broadcast album, meaning it's one of the better things you'll put in your ear this year.
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70The Birmingham band's finest hour yet.
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70For those who loved haha Sound, it may sound jarring at first, but ultimately, Broadcast's newfound edginess makes this rewarding new album their boldest to date.
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Made of equal parts detached beauty and inspired disintegration, it is a transmission from another place -- no matter where you live.
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40You want to like Broadcast. But they don't make it easy. [Oct 2005, p.115]
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They've lost two members... so perhaps that explains some of the more aggressive focus and minimalist arrangement, but not the surprise-around-every-corner freedom they find within their self-imposed stricture.
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80[Broadcast] have managed to find a halfway house between this always engaging but fussed-at sound and the resonant, muscular psychedelia of their spectacular live shows.
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Many tracks sound like they're simply missing a piece.
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70Despite this record's twilight charms, the group may need to become more expansive if they want to head further out there. [Oct 2005, p.96]
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The most challenging [album] yet for Broadcast, and the melodic bits hidden amongst the headspace traffic reward keen listeners on repeated spins. [#11, p.109]
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80It's always amazing to see a band eclipse their influences. [Oct 2005, p.77]
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LarryP974 is way way too low. The album that will grow the most on you all year, my fav is the lovely "goodbye girls."
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