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It isn't easy to strike the right balance between ambition and emotion, scale and humanity; White Whale manage it with ease on WWI.
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Unfortunately, as with music that draws from familiar musical influences, White Whale occasionally lapse into more predictable territory.
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WWI is a multi-layered indie rock epic packed with quirky characters, intricate verses, and grand theatrics.
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Under The RadarThroughout the majority, the inspirado strikes and the formula works perfectly. [Summer 2006, p.84]
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You'll hear a hint of Arcade Fire in the shout-along choruses, a whisper of Neutral Milk Hotel in the tales of deformed love, an intimation of the Decemberists in the pantomime sea shanties that explode into rock. They're all pretty faint echos, though, the vaguest kinds of familiar outposts in a sea of strangeness.
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Alternative PressToo big for the shallows, White Whale are at their best when pushing out into the depths of dense melodies and sea-breezy lyrics. [Sep 2006, p.216]
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MagnetFairly golden and never uninteresting. [#73, p.110]
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A solid first work.
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Facelessly competent, they make self-important, self-consciously literate guitar rock past its sell-by date via a simple recipe: mix together some late-period Death Cab for Cutie, some OK Computer-era Radiohead, and add in a few Doves and some Decemberists.
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JesseSNov 3, 2006