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- Summary: The UK indie rock group's fifth album.
- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 12
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Mixed: 2 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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This is the kind of album you can live with and hear new things in with each listen, and proves that the album is an art form that still has plenty of life in it.
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MojoThe Western lands proffers a winning cocktail of shimmering guitar harmonics, grand sweeping choruses, drums that avoid funk like the plague and solemn, psychogeographi lyrics from the Ian Curtis school. [Oct 2007, p.94]
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MagnetThe Western Lands offers more bang for your buck. [Fall 2007, p.96]
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Talbot’s vocals mix with the music about them to become another instrument proper; messages are lost in the murk, but the fug’s an appealing blur nonetheless.
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Under The RadarThis is the key to The Western Lands' appeal: making you feel like you might not be completely alone in your misery. [Fall 2007, p.79]
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The Western Lands works well as a whole and will surely please longtime fans, but I get the sense that Gravenhurst are holding back.
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UncutGravenhurst prove that kicking arse is neither beneath nor beyond them. [Oct 2007, p.93]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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AlexisM.Oct 26, 2007
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WillCOct 29, 2007
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DavidR.Oct 30, 2007
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