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The Fallen Leaf Pages is the kind of record that holds no surprises or excitement, the kind that sounds over before it reaches the halfway point.
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Stately, midtempo tunes whose immaculate production belies the darkness at their core.
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Despite being monstrously homogenous and boring, The Fallen Leaf Pages is too much of a melodic accomplishment to dismiss.
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This isn’t a half-formed album as such, just that it’s statued unchanging tempo and unvarying instrumentation leave potential developments lying by the roadside.
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The Fallen Leaf Pages settles comfortably into the band's canon, delivering no surprises, no gimmicks, no gags, no quirks and no affectations.
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FilterDespite all of the concentrated production, these mellow, easy-going songs still sound completely effortless. [#15, p.97]
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The Radar Brothers have been called "pastoral," "wandering" and "spacey." Their latest, The Fallen Leaf Pages, adds nothing new to this mix of descriptors.
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MagnetIt's drowsy, but drowsy with one cup of coffee in it. [#68, p.108]
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MojoNot their masterpiece, but a sizeable effort nonetheless. [Apr 2006, p.100]
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Paste MagazineFinds them doing pretty much what they've always done (hardly bad news). [#16, p.149]
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Their penchant to recreate the music they love leaves little room for innovation, and ultimately the album has the freshness of an unearthed time capsule.
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The Fallen Leaf Pages is the group's fourth record, and it sounds a lot like their third record, which was quite similar to the second one, which had a striking resemblance to the first one.
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Put simply, this music is slow, the same slow soggy tempo the whole way through.
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The songs on Fallen Leaf Pages are all played at roughly the same glacial pace and share a very mellow, thoughtful and regret-filled vibe. Some listeners will find them repetitive, even tedious.
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The Fallen Leaf Pages starts strong and tails off, but even that would be more forgivable if Putnam’s writing was as distinctive as it used to be.
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The ease of the instrumentation and the hushed vocals do their part to loosen you up as the music whisks you away to the innocence of childhood and teenage dreams that have never left the recesses of your mind.
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UncutTheir drowsy lullabies and minor-key melodies are now so commonplace... that much of it seems unremarkable. [Dec 2005, p.109]
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UrbPutnam's longing voice and rusty guitar strum easily envisions a rustic dwelling, yet their studio strengths reveal a Pink Floyd fetish. [Jun 2005, p.85]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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jeremycJun 26, 2005I agree with the last comments! Try this album if you like Grandaddy, Radiohead, The Flaming lips and so on...!
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KatieRMay 20, 2005This album is more interesting every time I listen to it. I love it!
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WayneBMay 18, 2005