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- Summary: The two-disc set for the Swedish rock band is its fifth studio album.
- Record Label: Yep Roc
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Pop
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Positive: 9 out of 15
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Mixed: 6 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Communion is easily the most consistent yet visionary and expansive recording Soundtrack have released yet, and proves beyond the shadow of a doubt, they are, even without mass acceptance, an impressively grand rock band.
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TSOOL have made a double album that isn’t a burden, but rather something which is genuinely fun to get lost inside and attempt to unravel.
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It's a minor miracle that these Swedish vets' 24-song sixth album clocks in at 94 filler-free minutes, stuffed with late-'60s guitar romps ranging from slow-burn psychedelia to up-tempo struts, and more deliberate mood pieces.
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As you might have guessed, nobody but TSOOL completists (and Mojo subscribers) needs all this stuff. Yet within Communion's overload lurk a handful of neo-Nuggets nuggets.
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The band has easily come up with its best set of songs since its sort-of 2001 breakthrough "Behind the Music." If not every track on the set is a winner, neither are there any outright stinkers.
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Q MagazineThere's plenty of classic rock sodge, but Communion's execution alone feels admirably daring. [Sep 2009, p.95]
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It's a perfect set for folks who think Oasis are too humble, that Pink Floyd lacked ambition. TSOOL lay down Stonehenge riffs and cosmic mumbo jumbo so earnestly and expertly that nearly every outfit they raid from the classic-rock closet flatters them.
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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MarcTheSharkMar 6, 2009Record of the Year, IMHO... how come this band can't get arrested in the U.S.? So much better than the stuff Pitchfork orders you to listen to.
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AlrikLMar 7, 2009
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TonyJMar 15, 2009
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markfJul 1, 2009
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