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Dec 9, 2011When you want to hear something nice and don't want to be overly engaged or challenged, Within and Without will satisfy your needs in that regard, and only those looking for memorable songs or fresh sounds will feel let down.
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UncutJul 28, 2011Within And Without charts a familiar shimmery beachscape between Julee Cruise and Lynchpop, early OMD and Slowdive. A couple tracks emerge from the haze. [Aug 2011, p.89]
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Jul 11, 2011Within And Without hangs oppressively, saved only by fleeting moments of clarity like the title track's stabbing outro, or the jump-rope glitter that opens 'Before'.
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Jul 11, 2011Greene's efforts of merging the decidedly low-key sounds of bedroom music and the urban thump of hip-hop represent a good first step in the continued evolution of the genre, but in the end, the resulting efforts feel warped by the confines of Greene's bedroom pop dedication.
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Jul 11, 2011It's a record with 20-20 hindsight vision. It perfects the past's mistakes, but misses the fun in making them.
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Jul 14, 2011The album drowns in atmospherics to the point where it could be entirely instrumental. Greene casts an enjoyably suggestive spell but it wafts right through you.
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Nov 10, 2011There's a significant lack of depth to Within and Without.
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Jul 12, 2011Easy to listen to but impossible to feel excited about, this album is compelling evidence that chillwave's allure has been eviscerated.
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Jul 8, 2011Etiolation and enervation were always key to chillwave/glo-fi's appeal, but this is just too pallid, too washed-out.
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Jul 11, 2011It's an album you can hear without ever really noticing. Radox for the ears.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 42 out of 50
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Mixed: 5 out of 50
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Negative: 3 out of 50
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