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- Summary: The husband-and-wife duo releases its debut full-length album of African and Middle Eastern-influenced music.
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- Record Label: Kompakt
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Mixed: 5 out of 14
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Negative: 2 out of 14
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Apr 15, 2011Euro synth duo, tuneful and sometimes haunting, always droney fun‑-textured, beaty lines under an unnaturally high-voiced girly-woman singing lyrics of no importance when you can make them out, which isn't often.
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Mar 10, 2011Sometimes befuddling but never boring, Rainbow Arabia is making music that ultimately sounds like no one else's.
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Apr 28, 2011Tiffany Preston impishly tries on accents for her FX-thinned vocals, Jamaican brogue here or a lot of Karin Dreijer Andersson wailing there, but it's the omni-directional whirl and clashing textures that consume the most.
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Mar 9, 2011Boys And Diamonds is an album that takes two different roads. A journey down one avenue finds Rainbow Arabia exploring the unrefined, bespoke freedom of African rhythms, ad hoc instrumentation and unfiltered self-expression.
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Q MagazineMay 2, 2011This follow-up to their debut shows more polish and a firmer grasp on rhythm. [Apr 2011, p.106]
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Mar 10, 2011What a lot of the divergent sonic explorations sum up to is an album that has a lot of ideas; perhaps more than what makes up a coherent pop record.
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Mar 10, 2011Never mind the cultural appropriation bollocks, here's ethnotronic industrial pop.
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