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Castanets
- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Release Date: Sep 22, 2009
- Summary: Rafter Roberts produced the latest album for the Raymond Raposa-led band.
- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 10
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Mixed: 3 out of 10
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Negative: 0 out of 10
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There’s a certain kind of magic going on here and it needs to be accounted for.
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UncutThis fifth album is an abstract fuzz of Floydian oddness and gothic not-quite-country. [Nov 2009, p.102]
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Texas Rose, The Thaw and The Beasts is the closest Raposa has come to a straight country record. But he doesn't come that close, as all these players steer him further out on tangents rather than towards the middle. And the record is all the better for it.
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Plaintive, spare, and narrative in approach, these songs--which seem to bookend the album--are among Raposa’s most affecting.
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Overall, Texas Rose, the Thaw, and the Beasts is a good mood record, a midnight opus that sounds great while it's playing but doesn't much travel with the listener beyond its runtime.
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Q MagazineOrthodoxy is dispensed with here, with varible results. [Nov 2009, p.103]
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Texas Rose is markedly similar in this regard and consequently another chapter in Raposa’s development as an artist that is beginning to seem more a journey that is less for us, and more for him.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Jun 28, 2019
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BenFeb 1, 2010
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