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It’s elegantly expressive music where warm tones from cold machines cut to the quick of human emotion.
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The WireAll the sharp, cold ridges of the usual electronic sound palette are sheared off and smoothed down on this beguilingly gentle release. [#228, p.65]
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Thrives on its mixture of fuller-sounding productions and relatively traditionally-structured songs with vocals.
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UncutA sustained soft explosion of hushed, aching indietronica. [June 2003, p.91]
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MojoThis is accessible, if sometimes austere, modern electronica, distinguished by passages of unmitigated prettiness. [May 2003, p.108]
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Overall, the impression generated by Tulsa for One Second is one of inoffensive pleasantness.
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The lack of freshness is most apparent on the disc's instrumental tracks, most of which sound like hand-me-down versions of the micro-carols on Mum's Finally We Are No One.
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UrbThe album feels like a series of diminishing returns. [Feb 2003, p.93]
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Alternative PressComatose-inducing. [Mar 2003, p.94]
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ewaeFeb 24, 2003best of the year