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- Artist(s): Nathan Ward, Jordan Robson-Cramer, Jessie Stein, Caila Thompson-Hannant
- Summary: The sophomore album for the indie Canadian band led by Graham Van Pelt is its first in more than four years.
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- Record Label: Secret City Records
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Club/Dance, Indie Pop
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Jul 6, 2011While it's true that Was I The Wave? is no booming party-starter, it's hard to deny its emotion and beauty.
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Jul 6, 2011Although some of the sounds used are radically new to the Miracle Fortress repertoire, Was I The Wave? demonstrates the perfect amount of experimentation and development of the band's sound while remaining true to the music of its past.
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Jul 6, 2011Van Pelt is not designing sounds to blow us into a new paradigm, but crafting textures to drawn us in, to subsume, to mesmerize, and perhaps, through a combination of these effects, to softly awe.
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Jul 6, 2011With more ups than downs, Was I The Wave? is a pleasant diversion with a small handful of truly inspired moments.
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Q MagazineSep 22, 2011Miracle Fortress' version of the '80s manages to push the decade's bookends together, fusing the analogue synthetics of early Mute records and proto-shoegazing's disorienting, ecstatic swirl of noise. [Oct 2011, p.127]
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Under The RadarAug 4, 2011This is an album full of sophisticated late-night hangout music colored by '80s synths and blurry, desperate vocals. [Jul 2011, p.89]
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Jul 6, 2011The electronica genre wasn't a bad one to dabble in, but what Was I The Wave? is missing is more punch and pizzazz, more depth musically.