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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 13, 2011While Van Pelt has crafted an album that's sharper in most ways than his debut, it could do with a bit more of these tracks' personality and sense of melodic wonder.
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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, 2011Experimental while always pop-oriented and engaging, Was I the Wave? is a great summer afternoon album for chilling at the beach or day-driving with friends.
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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.