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- Summary: This is the first album on the Dead Oceans imprint for the trio from Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Record Label: Dead Oceans
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Folk
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Positive: 10 out of 16
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Mixed: 6 out of 16
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Upper Air is a comely album through and through, and certainly one of this year’s high-water marks for the acoustically inclined.
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MojoSparse backing, strings or a brimming organ interject occasionally, and enhance their combined voices on a brilliantly realised record. [Aug 2009, p.100]
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FilterHere, every strain, key, and vocal is stirred up into a creaky, constanaut, clearly-defined symphony. [Summer 2009, p.98]
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A stronger verse/chorus foundation might make the songs more instantly accessible and easier to remember. But by making it easier to access, Bowerbirds might well be depriving listeners of the chance to make their own way, to wander in the desert a little even.
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Very, very few people have something clever to say and the musical ability to put it into song. That leaves us with ten pleasant songs about nothing much in particular, sung by vocalists of middling charisma.
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Bowerbirds continue to show great potential, with some truly beautiful music along the way, but Upper Air’s most interesting tracks ('Bright Future' and 'Crooked Lust') are the ones that deviate from their core sound.
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Under The RadarThe come off as Decemberists-light, and never find a spark. [Summer 2009, p.60]
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