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The album casts the duo in a new light that may not quite eclipse their former work, but it has set them well on their way.
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A mix of breathy covers and intimate originals spiked with Wareham's laconic talk-singing and smoothed out by Phillips' icy purr.
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Subdued guitar work and sleepy rhythms provide a solid underpinning for the airy melodies, keeping them from drifting away like freshly-blown bubbles.
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MojoPerfectly conceived and executed, the album is a beautiful collection of mood music. [May 2007, p.112]
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Not a dud in the entire meticulous love letter to a da-do-ron-ron era.
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Track by track, the disc's a sweet thing, but as a whole it's about as light and wispy.
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Arriving where Luna was already headed at their breakup, the album feels much more realized than that band ever did at their end.
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Throughout Back Numbers, Wareham and Phillips push small emotions over big.
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Luna fans will be pleased.
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Under The RadarThe arrangements almost entirely abandon the Velvets/Television electric guitar bedrock on which Luna was founded, instead adopting a basic structure of strummed acoustic guitar, spare orchestration, and burbling synths. [#16, p.90]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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christopherfMar 23, 2007
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JeffBMar 21, 2007
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ThomasBMar 20, 2007