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Dec 4, 2013It speaks volumes that, despite their often silly perspectives, these songs still manage to be weirdly affecting.
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Q MagazineJan 28, 2014There is a whiff of leftovers to You Don't know Anything's six songs. [Feb 2014, p.120]
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Dec 4, 2013Things go slightly awry with the stodgy prog-rock textures of “Clockwatching” and “The 6th Wave”, but it's the work of a band obsessed with a multitude of musical directions, which has to be A Good Thing.
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Dec 4, 2013The beefy, Steeleye Span-meets-MGMT rocker "The Sixth Wave" are spilling over with ideas, and would probably have fit right in on Terra Firma's ambitious back end, while the amiable title cut, a breezy two-chord shuffle that should please fans of the band's hook-filled debut, delivers the EP's most instantly gratifying moments of pop acumen.
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Dec 4, 2013It's not that these songs are bad--the arrangements are glorious, though occasionally a little florid, and the melodies are present and correct--more that they don't sound quite right.