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Jun 13, 2013Crawling Up The Stairs should be praised not only for its beauty, honesty and sonic specialty, but also for the way it’s sequenced.
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Jun 3, 2013It’s bleak and bittersweet, and it’s very well done.
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May 13, 2013With Crawling Up the Stairs, the masks are off for the world to hear.
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May 13, 2013Crawling Up The Stairs is a very fine follow up that sees them once again exploring the inner workings of their souls and collective psyche with often beautiful results.
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May 16, 2013Dark elements permeate the menacing corners of Crawling Up The Stairs, and while it may have been a long, grueling journey to get through, it seems that by the end of this bumpy road, Pure X have reached a positive creative terrain that suggests their long climb up the from the bottom was worth all the effort and pain it took to get there.
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UncutJul 11, 2013It is a wispy thing, not always easy to grip. But its more soulful moments can be quietly transcendent. [Aug 2013, p.74]
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May 24, 2013It may not be as instantly gratifying as Pleasure, but it's more sophisticated and self-aware.
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May 20, 2013It’s an album of stitched-together aspects that feel incongruous, though interesting.
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May 13, 2013Whilst often brilliant, Crawling makes you wonder why Pure X have swapped pleasure for pain.
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May 13, 2013It’s possibly not to everyone’s taste--no doubt fans of the definiteness of ‘Pleasure’ may turn on this one--but it’s more confident and upfront, less immersed in background noise.
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May 13, 2013Pure X may not be particularly pure anymore, but it’s a pleasure to have them down in the muck with the rest of us.
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May 28, 2013These instruments layer in complex, hypnotic patterns that drone in and over themselves, forged together to create less an emotional outcry than the hazy anguish of recalled emotion.