The Sunlandic Twins - Of Montreal
The Sunlandic Twins Image
  • Summary: Kevin Barnes' eighth Of Montreal disc finds the Georgian heading into more electronic territory, enlisting his laptop to assist in the recording process. Music on a laptop--who knew?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 25
  2. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Barnes has created some utterly brilliant compositions, captured a perfect blend of melodic energy and sincerity while never sacrificing catchiness, and has used both achievements to create one of this year's most cathartically fun albums.
  2. The Sunlandic Twins is a dizzying, exhilarating, and almost endlessly fun ride, breezy almost to a fault, romantic and lighthearted.
  3. 60
    For all this sonic broad-mindedness, the Twins' ideas are piled on a lightweight core, and good luck making sense of the lyrics. [Jul 2005, p.104]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 35
  3. Negative: 1 out of 35
  1. EdgarH
    10
    Awesome!
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. FrankD
    10
    Another solid effort by Kevin Barnes and Company. Great, great album.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. NathanE
    2
    Dreadful forced zaniness pervades this record while is so unrecognizable from their best work that it's best avoided. The hipsters will love it, but they probably also won't be wondering where the tunes and lyrics have gone. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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