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Filled with an ineffable spiritual longing and a fractured sense of alienation, the album packs an emotional punch and a dark intelligence that sneaks up on you after repeated listens.
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As much as this album doesn’t diverge from the band’s original template, it remains an album of rare potency.
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The album is less immediately memorable than Wilderness' prior work, but its glittering suspension of pensive melodies and resounding rhythms is just as fine in the long run.
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SpinBoth jarring and hypnotic. [May 2006, p.91]
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There's plenty of melodic mope-rock and shoegaze-y reverberations to admire.
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Somewhere in the mess of feedback and sonic sluggishness is something that strikes a nerve, makes you want to hear it again.
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UncutWhen they learn to perfect a climax without gaining flab, this band could be a truly transcendental prospect. [May 2006, p.129]
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This may be far too soon, more reflex than action, for the band to properly capitalize on their start.
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The blame for this tedium, as far as I’m concerned, sits squarely with Johnson, whose vocals are an acquired taste to begin with, but here assert themselves even more obnoxiously than before.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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ChaseAug 18, 2006A fantastic and cerebral album from the Baltimore art rockers.
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oswooJul 31, 2006my favourite album of the year
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DanMay 13, 2006