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- Summary: This is the sixth album for the Vancouver, Canada indie rock outfit led by Dan Bejar (also of the New Pornographers).
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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It's Gonna Take an Airplane | |
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It's gonna take an airplane To get me off the ground. I don't blame anyone who isn't sticking around, Cause when you stick around (when you stick... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 12 out of 14
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Mixed: 2 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Your Blues is some kind of masterpiece, the work of a truly original and iconoclastic talent.
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FilterSchizophrenic, stark, and even with its pretentious theatrics, this is an amazing record. [#9, p.104]
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The record's conceptual brilliance lies largely in Bejar's ability to craft deeply moving passages out of ostensibly artificial and contrived elements, subtly suggesting that all music, if not all human expression, is in effect some sort of artifice.
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Although the faux strings, drums and horns do feel a bit contrived at points the overwhelming feel is one of ambition rather than pretension.
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2004's early front-runner for art rock album of the year.
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BlenderDestroyer's slickest synthesis yet of ornate hooks and cryptic poetics. [Apr 2004, p.127]
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UncutAn acquired taste. [Jan 2005, p.124]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 0 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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EdMar 10, 2004
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DangerCartDec 5, 2004
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billparcelsMar 12, 2004Sick.
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GuyMApr 26, 2004fantastic just fantastic and it makes me cry too Votre, Guy.
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CodyHAug 4, 2004
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QueenieMcFaddenMar 17, 2004
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willsleyopenMar 23, 2004dull
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