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- Summary: The debut album for the six-piece indie rock band from Oklahoma City.
- Record Label: Quarter Stick
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 5 out of 8
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Mixed: 3 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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The only thing the tracks have in common is the uncommon musicianship on display and the high-flying atmospherics that keep most of the album's mood adrift in the stratosphere.
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Alternately blissed-out and ragingly psychedelic, this debut is one of 2008's most promising records.
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It never coheres long enough to be truly transcendent, but The Uglysuit hints at greater things to come--and offers up enough great, though too easily recognizable, moments to recommend it already.
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At times, all the sweetness and light can be a bit repetitive. But for a first outing, The Uglysuit does serve as a much more quiet sort of inspiration--which, sometimes, can be quite profound.
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The net result of The Uglysuit’s formula sounds something like an imagined pairing of Bedhead and Phish. It’s all right as far as it goes.
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The Uglysuit, whose country-prog-post-rock-indie-orchestral ramblings recall, variously, Wilco, Bright Eyes, The Shins, Elbow, Ryan Adams, My Morning Jacket and the soundtrack for every emotionally self-indulgent US drama ever made. Yet, hearing the warm country musings of ‘Chicago’ or the aching two-note piano motif of 'And We Became Sunshine’, it’s hard not to settle into the seduction.
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The Uglysuit are certainly competent, but on this debut their music feels too by-the-book.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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EvanB.Sep 30, 2008
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DC.Oct 24, 2008Best live show I've ever seen.
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