by
Prince Rama
- Record Label: Paw Tracks
- Release Date: Nov 5, 2012
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Nov 6, 2012The music is what matters, and Prince Rama, with this highfalutin' silliness, have delivered big.
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The WireDec 5, 2012There's a subtle psychedelic twist in these phony hits that somehow renders the best of them compulsively listenable. [Oct 2012, p.64]
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Nov 15, 2012As a concept Top 10 Hits… is frequently confusing, often brilliant and at times downright awful. Ultimately, it adds up to a very intriguing album by a band that is quite impossible to pin down.
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Nov 7, 2012The surreality and absurdity of dance music from the apocalypse is a joyful alternative to the surreality and absurdity of disaster movies and real life disasters.
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Nov 6, 2012The album is consistent in its Eastern-minded psych-pop, and aside from a few flourishes to distinguish the "bands"--goth synths in "Receive," a song supposedly by a German architect band called Taohaus, for example--it sounds like the effort of a single group.
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Nov 9, 2012End of the World still isn't quite as fun as it could be, as the Larson sisters slip back into old habits on a string of tracks that are too reminiscent of last year's Trust Now.
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Nov 15, 2012An ambitious concept, but not fully executed, Top Ten Hits Of The End Of The World is stuck somewhere in-between.