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They want to be every band to every bloke, shuffling between genres in an effort to jack all and master nada.
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Under The RadarIt’s not hard to grasp the appeal of their music; it’s just hard to understand why it’s eliciting such a strong response. [#14]
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The Loon owes so much to Stephen Malkmus and Frank Black that one imagines lawyers might be called.
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Q MagazineAt times they lack the focus to quite surmount their influences. [Aug 2006, p.117]
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BlenderTapes 'n Tapes take not just their frazzled vocals but also their low-fi mixes, fuzzed-out guitars, semi-sequitur lyrics, falsetto refrains and general air of nearly falling apart from campus kings Pavement. [Aug 2006, p.114]
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To be fair, "The Loon" stops short of pastiche, but it is too transparently a paean to Tape 'n Tapes' heroes.
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We know this routine well; it's comfortable and pleasing to the ears. But throw on a disc by one of the originators (Pavement) or the cream of the modern crop (Wolf Parade) and Tapes 'n Tapes is trumped hands-down.
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[A] thoroughly underwhelming debut, an album that merely paints within the lines already drawn by Pavement and the Pixies.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 44 out of 58
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Mixed: 9 out of 58
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Negative: 5 out of 58
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Mar 26, 2012
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MarcMar 31, 2008This is just really, really good. Pure and simple.
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EricL.Dec 31, 2007