The Beatific Visions - Brakes [aka brakesbrakesbrakes]
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74 out of 100

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8.2 out of 10

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  • Summary: The UK band (now named in triplicate in the U.S.) fronted by former British Sea Power member Eamon Hamilton recorded this brief second album in Nashville.

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 16
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  1. Drowned In Sound
    90
    The Beatific Visions is one of the most enthralling, deceiving and delightful albums of recent times.
  2. BBC collective
    80
    As exciting as it is original-sounding.
  3. Pitchfork
    78
    Gone are the gimmicky fragments and Mcluskyesque scene-jabs. The Beatific Visions is dominated by direly catchy and fully fleshed-out songs that pop like punk, lilt like country, mutter politics, and reek of the garage.
  4. Dot Music
    60
    We're all for experimentation, but please: Nashville?

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  1. [Anonymous]
    6
    The Beach Boys meets Flogging Molly? I wasn't really feelin' it. The title song and some others were good, but for every good song there's Porcupine or Pineapple, a really pitiful attempt at an War protest song. Even The Flaming Lips, with all their in-your-face ridiculousness, managed a more serious protest than the Brakes. I'd recommend avoiding this CD.… Expand

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