Widowspeak
- Widowspeak
- Band Name: Widowspeak
- Record Label: Captured Tracks
- Release Date: Aug 9, 2011
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Sep 28, 201160Their debut slots into a middling no-man's land with very few defining characteristics, positive or negative.
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Sep 14, 201130Beachy summer party/winter bummer wallpaper for your Bohemian café-bar and for the hipsters that frequent it, who like their pop music perfectly pleasant and non-threatening.
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Sep 12, 201172Its winning, all-pleasing debut, quiet as it may be in a scene overcrowded with showiness and incessant bids to polarize, is perhaps a mere pebble dropped in a sea-but with will and wit enough to ripple as far as a boulder.
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Aug 24, 201180There are thus a number of quite diverse stylistic influences at work, but here they are all fused together into a whole that is both natural and low-key.
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Aug 24, 201168Widowspeak are a perfectly enjoyable, if ultimately unexciting band.
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Aug 24, 201175The economical use of space makes Widowspeak feel like a chance meeting with a pining stranger, one who spills their guts then vanishes from sight just as they're beginning to make an impression.
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Aug 24, 201180If Widowspeak keep refining their sound and cranking out memorable and quietly impressive songs like they do here, they may end up being pretty special. Even if they don't, though, this album will still be out there to help soothe and thrill you when you have a post-Mazzy itch you need to scratch.
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Aug 24, 201170It's a promising brand of ethereal indie rock for a band just beginning.
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Aug 24, 201175The mixture of pop and mystery is enticing.
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Sep 14, 201180Their excellent debut album is a neat mix of somnambulant balladry and ragged high drama. [Oct 2011, p.105]