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- Summary: The debut full-length release for the dream-pop trio led by Grouper's Liz Harris was recorded over several years with Scott Simmons and Jed Bindeman.
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- Record Label: Kranky
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
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MagnetSep 22, 2015Some of these songs are potent, for-real rock songs. [No. 124, p.61]
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Sep 4, 2015It’s a very strong album, one that I found myself wanting to listen to over and over again. Highly recommended.
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Sep 3, 2015The memory of the dream’s worth nothing, but you’ll chase the feeling all day. This album is a lot like that.
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Sep 3, 2015It’s a record that celebrates the wonder of sound, with deceptively intricately songs under a balmy haze of reverb that gets better with each listen.
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Sep 29, 2015It sounds, at times, less like a proper shoegaze act and more like a memory of one: the hooks as pronounced, but with an ineffable dreamlike quality thrown in, less something quantifiable than something to be experienced. Thankfully, this is an album that both satisfies and mystifies; both are welcome qualities.
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Sep 14, 2015Helen have turned out an otherwise pleasing debut, and it's nice to hear Harris pushing her otherwise ghostly music into lusher and sunnier places, but it doesn't prevent The Original Faces from feeling a little underdeveloped and like a missed opportunity by the band to take the kind of music they are making in more interesting directions.
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Sep 8, 2015The Original Faces is full of blurred notes. It seems Harris, even if presenting a new authenticity, can’t shape it into recognizable form.
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