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This is a brilliantly buoyant and wonderfully charming record that’ll suit almost every mood.
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Space-age pop that cunningly combines bossa nova languidity with Beach Boys-style lushness.
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Brilliantly catchy.
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The project finds strength in synergy, working off each member's best qualities; they balance a dry vocal tone here with a melodramatic keyboard sigh there.
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UncutRemarkably alluring. [Apr 2007, p.93]
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Standing so close to cuteness is dangerous, but these two keep their noses clean.
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Like a lot of the music of the boy-girl pop-duo genre, The Bird And The Bee can sometimes get overbearingly adorable... But mostly, it's a warm, cheerful distraction with enough bite to remain relevant through the summer and beyond.
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This is a record that gives up its secrets slowly, while being charming and delightful at every turn.
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As intoxicating as a Brazilian breeze and ironic as a David Lynch night in L.A., the Los Angeles duo the Bird and the Bee make a soothingly hip, deliriously cool blend of pop.
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This is 21st-century lounge with a Manson heart — music for unwinding, or maybe plotting crazed revenge.
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Very likable.
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The Bird and the Bee have created a sweet electronica-dusted pop sound with an easy jazz basis but a complex musicality.
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Q MagazineAn odd mix, but a perfect setting for George's intoxicatingly sweet voice. [Apr 2007, p.117]
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This faultless debut album will delight lovers of recent records by Nouvelle Vague and Roisin Murphy.
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Most of The Bird and the Bee is average, albeit highly danceable and fun, Pop music: worth the download, but hardly the purchase.
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The Bird and the Bee is as light as a feather, for sure. It’s not throwaway, though; the darting melodies and twinkling keyboards are like some divine ringtone and the pair’s love of jazz standards is apparent in the harmonic reach and twists of their songs.
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This album maintains youth and vigor through dirty language and clean production, but eventually settles for something very middle-of-the-road.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 11
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Mixed: 1 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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SethC.Apr 10, 2008Lushly addictive. Truly ambrosia for the ears.
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JustoApr 12, 2007
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mikefApr 11, 2007