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- Record Label: Bar None / Elefant
- Release Date: Jan 11, 2005
- Summary: Robert Wratten (Field Mice) is joined by singers Beth Arzy and Anne Mari on this fifth TBS release.
- Record Label: Bar None / Elefant
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 4 out of 11
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Mixed: 7 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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It appears to paint from a more kaleidoscopic emotional palette than some of the earlier Stars endeavours.
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Peopled with starry-eyed lovers and draped in wistful melancholy, it brilliantly captures that lonely netherworld between love and loss.
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With this delicious melancholy, he is nearing perfection.
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BlenderAustere in its beauty and a little wearying. [Mar 2005, p.143]
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Under The RadarA fairly specific album--great when you are similarly sullen, but somewhat tiresome when you aren't. [#8, p.112]
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Sure, there are minor ways in which Wratten moves his brainchild away from a punishing sameness, but it’s more than fair to say that the formula that Wratten has built into a veritable cottage industry of crystal clear guitar lines, staid drumming, and a bass tuned to the key of depression is as predictable as the bombastic riffage of AC/DC.
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UncutToo often there's a pileup of overwrought, over-long ballads that struggle to make headway. [Jan 2005, p.121]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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coreyfApr 1, 2005
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