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Oct 16, 2012The commitment to developing their sound into urgent and strident rock is commendable yet the execution leaves you cold at times.
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Sep 14, 2012As much as Stephens desires for a naturalist/humanist authenticity found in the limits of the extremes of existence, The Bloom and the Blight achieves an equal subjectivity that Stephens searches for.
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Under The RadarSep 4, 2012A solid document of the power of simplicity, resolutely joyous and straight from the heart. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.115]
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Sep 4, 2012For better or for worse, Stephens and Tyson Vogel have thrown in their lot with that angst, and thematically, The Bloom and the Blight is less of the departure it hopes to be.
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Sep 4, 2012Despite the drama in the music, there's no sense of real people in these songs, not as artists in the here and now and not as subjects in the there and then.
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MojoOct 22, 2012The increasingly frequent transitions between the finger picking subtlety of old to such newfound rockage are, however, simply too jarring for satisfactory listening. [Nov 2012, p.84]