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- Summary: With influences of psychedelic and Krautrock, the debut full-length release for the Canadian trio that includes former members of DD/MM/YYYY was produced by Mike Haliechuk.
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- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
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MagnetNov 12, 2014Things never bog down in the spectral murk, even when the tempos slow to a bump in the night. [No. 115, p.53]
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Oct 13, 2014The album swells, twists and turns, but rather than feeling helplessly meandering--a pitfall of the genre--it has an organic pacing that naturally starts and ends with each song.
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Oct 13, 2014All of this freedom has culminated in a stellar debut full-length for Arts & Crafts.
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Oct 13, 2014While the band have reined in some of the volatility that made those introductory singles so exhilarating, there’s a cool consistency and newfound accessibility to Absolutely Free that makes it an easy, enchanting front-to-back listen, the songs locking together to form a smoothly contoured album arc.
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Under The RadarDec 19, 2014The band flourishes on this exciting debut. [Dec 2014, p.90]
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Oct 13, 2014The Toronto trio's first album is an impressive debut that shows the band to be masters of taking psychedelic, experimental, and simply interesting music of many eras and delivering them all wrapped up in one shimmering package that's easy to absorb.
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Oct 31, 2014Though not inaccessible, it just requires a slightly different appreciation of music than you may be used to, and one wonders how this Toronto trio will build upon the canvass it has meticulously constructed on this alluring, even if it is sometimes puzzling, outing.
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