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- Summary: This is the latest album for the North Carolina-based band.
- Record Label: 4AD
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 18
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Mixed: 3 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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This is literary rock as it should be.
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While he might elicit the specific from his listeners, his music--especially here--is general. This is his gift and the gift of effective storytellers: to build toward the general by using the specific.
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Darnielle's lyrics are as true as ever to his incisive yet confused style; 'confused' because, as his myopic cleverness makes for phrases as bracing and direct as can be, his words always--simultaneously--obfuscate or complicate themselves.
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This is a record not so much crying in the wilderness, but one recognizing that its characters are in that wilderness.
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It's cool that he's trying to change things up, but there's no substitute for a strong result.
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Literate, perceptive, sometimes a tad mawkish, they're also resolutely sturdy, insightful diversions that would please even without the Biblical trappings.
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Under The RadarThe Goats have noble intentions, but their Biblicval tunes call to mind 7-11 praise music. [Fall 2009, p.59]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Oct 24, 2017
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Oct 15, 2010
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