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- Summary: The rock quartet from Alaska, now based in Portland, Oregon, releases its fourth album.
- Record Label: Equal Vision
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Alternative
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The Sun | |
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If you look real high you just might find Sitting in the stars, glistening, glistening Waiting for the band to come Just waiting for that man to... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Combining Motown falsettos and the best of late-'60s groove rock with spacey loops and hipster-art-collective ?sing-alongs, they deliver a sound that's friendly and familiar without being derivative; it's a sort of retrofitted make-out van on a club crawl.
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Rather than indulging the impulse to ride grooves this mellow off into the sunset, the band keeps one eye trained on the meter (most songs clock in under three minutes), while the other drifts off into the clouds, like on the ’60s-era antiwar singalong 'People Say.'
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The Satanic Satanist constructs an exquisite medium between indie music and hard rock.
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Alternative PressThe band are able to overcome the production errors through Gourley's elastic vocal counterpoint, bassist Zachary Scott Carothers' pocket-groping lines and licks so gooey they recall a time when Keith Richards could speak in complete sentences. [Aug 2009, p.110]
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FilterWhere do these ever-evolving Portlanders go from here? It's anyone's guess, but their latest effort sends them off in the right direction. [Summer 2009, p.106]
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Under The RadarThe result is a (surprisingly) coherent and effective soul-and-funk-inspired album that doesn't try to overstep itself. [Summer 2009, p.62]
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While it's certainly enjoyable, it's also a bit more generic than anything they've done before.
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Aug 27, 2013
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TomasC.Aug 29, 2009This album makes my day so happy and so powerfull. Please do yourself a favor and listen to this album, is Mindblowing.
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JasonMAug 14, 2009A very well don't album by one of the best upcoming bands.
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Jan 6, 2011
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DavidDAug 11, 2009Awesome album. Probably my favorite of the year so far!
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Jun 22, 2013
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May 13, 2016
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