- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Release Date: May 8, 2007
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The Beatific Visions is one of the most enthralling, deceiving and delightful albums of recent times.
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One of the finest albums of the year.
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BlenderThe Bush-Blair era has damaged these guys, and the results rule. [Jun 2007, p.105]
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As exciting as it is original-sounding.
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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.
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UncutWitty like Loudon Wainwright, doleful like Jonathan Richman, Hamilton emerges as a distinct presence throughout, and it's this you warm to. [Dec 2006, p.102]
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Alternative PressThese Brighton lads are smart and clever, as evidenced by the creative leaps they exhibit on Visions. [Jun 2007, p.148]
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With The Beatific Visisons, brakesbrakesbrakes’ music has stripped off its experimental beginning and evolved into a fuller embrace of its alt-country leanings.
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SpinThe pub stompers are as rowdy as ever, but they're balanced here by laid-back ruminations on romance. [Jun 2007, p.91]
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The Beatific Visions is not flawless, but even with a few glaring misses, this album is above average and often brilliant.
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Under The RadarFor an album, Beutific Vision fits uneasily together as these unchecked indulgences lead songs to genre hop with complete disregard. [Summer 2007, p.79]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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[Anonymous]Feb 5, 2007