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Sep 8, 2014His outfit have returned with an album that skirts close to perfection in its 35 minutes of glorious madness and transcendent, George Harrison-like guitar solos.
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Sep 15, 2014What it loses in irreverence it gains in solemnity and seriousness, but this is still the Zahner-Isenberg of before, ruminating on his past with a conflicted conscience that threatens his every thought.
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MojoSep 12, 2014It's an even more pop-centric prism of West Coast folky radiance. [Oct 2014, p.92]
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Sep 12, 2014This is an album both challenging and gorgeous-sounding. If occasionally over-ambitious, it is always attention-grabbing, and very often risk-taking in the most positive sense.
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Sep 11, 2014While the rest of us went to work or college or worse after graduation, Avi Buffalo hit the road, but they too spent those formative years navigating the strange cognitive duality of post-high school young adulthood, and the sad, strange, and beautiful At Best Cuckold does an awfully nice job distilling that unease into audio form.
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UncutSep 4, 2014The template remains classic American pop-rock served with a glaze of summer-fried weirdness, redolent of The Shins, Flaming Lips and Neil Young, but now there's real heart beneath the often twee facade. [Oct 2014, p.67]
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Q MagazineSep 4, 2014A happy return. [Oct 2014, p.103]
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Sep 4, 2014Notwithstanding the distinctive high pitch of his voice, Avi’s music has evolved from the childlike lightness of his debut’s glorious highlight Truth Sets In--and perhaps that’s the crucial point: the truth has set in.
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Sep 10, 2014Avi Buffalo are trying and failing to act their age on At Best Cuckold, and ain’t nothin’ wrong with that either.
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Sep 25, 2014While At Best Cuckold is an album of entertaining truth and teenage legitimacy, and while its sprightly sound and pleasant air create a funny kind of optimism, it does not offer material that will sustain itself over time.
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Sep 12, 2014But because of its uneven idiosyncrasies and its cheeky self-flagellation, At Best Cuckhold sounds like Avi Buffalo’s coming of age story.
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Sep 5, 2014At Best Cuckold is a strong cohesive whole, a sum of all its theoretically disparate parts, and one that wears its idiosyncrasies proudly on its sleeve.
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Sep 4, 2014At Best Cuckold isn't an explosive game changer, nor is it particularly different to what's already out there, but it sure as hell earns a proud place above its peers.
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Under The RadarSep 5, 2014What we lose is some of that unhinged spirit that so impishly drove tunes like "What's In It For" or "Jessica." What we gain: more exploratory songwriting, some melancholy indulgence, some added guitar and arrangement chops, and a healthy dose of life. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.72]