- Record Label: Merge
- Release Date: Aug 21, 2007
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Imperial Teen have again made one of the best records of the year.
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There is much to be excited about here and virtually nothing to poo-poo.
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Shinsian popsters rejoice. Here's another dreamsicle caked with sugar sugar.
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Even when Imperial Teen reduces its sound to almost nothing, as on the hauntingly spare 'What You Do,' every instrument and voice rings out, appealingly unsullied.
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When the Teens youthfully chime in behind sheepish disclosures, it's like they’re arguing that a baby seat in the tour van doesn’t have to slow down the ride. And quite often, they prove it too.
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Though the album has its fair share of songs that sound like stylish, smart, but lulling background music on first listen, The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band reveals its catchiness gradually.
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Catchy they remain on their belated fourth album--also bright, dynamic, tender, brainy, unpretentious and civilly pansexual.
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Under The RadarThe record is something of a rehash of "On" and a small step down from that album's focused energy and brilliant pop mechanics. [Summer 2007, p.74]
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The Teen’s male/female vocal harmonies and occasional big rockin’ choruses are designed to make you love them; at first this will make you hate them, then hate to love them, and finally either get over it and start bobbin’ your head, or crush this album with a hammer.
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Hair finds Imperial Teen in full-bore navel gazing mode, talking both obliquely and directly about where they are and, more importantly, how they got there.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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ChampiodiP.Jul 14, 2009
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JCAug 24, 2007