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Aug 5, 2013Other bands thinking about re-forming would do well to follow their lead and not just get back together to play the hits and count the cash, but instead create something vital and relevant; something that makes the group's continued existence worthwhile.
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Aug 15, 2013Medicine is at its best on To the Happy Few when it pushes its sound to the point of indulgence, then finds a way to pull everything together.
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Aug 7, 2013As a whole, the album has a wonderful density that reveals a new secret with every listen, melodies buried in caverns of reverb and tricky guitar bits that hide in reversed delay.
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Aug 5, 2013To the Happy Few doesn't feature many standout songs, but as a whole, it's a remarkably cohesive, often unpredictable piece of work.
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UncutJul 31, 2013Like a blurrier version of Tame Impala's Lonerism, each listen reveals further pleasures. [Sep 2013, p.91]
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Jul 31, 2013While this may once have been filed under 'shoegaze', now we can call it 'noisy dream pop' and just wade in its wash of guitars.
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Aug 13, 2013Unlike the other reunited groups of their generation, Medicine doesn’t sound nostalgic at all, and in fact they sound more contemporary than the majority of young guitar bands playing right now.
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Aug 28, 2013The resulting album feels fresh and contemporary--as much as any new young guitar band around today--and not at all a retro step.
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Aug 5, 2013It's the extras that Medicine bring to the table that set them apart from their contemporaries.
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Jul 31, 2013To The Happy Few might be a fairly transparent attempt to relive Medicine’s salad days, but there are many worse sources they could mine for inspiration.
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Sep 9, 2019After 22 Medicine sounds just as refreshing as they once did back in their hay day of the early 1990s