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- Summary: The Brooklyn-based band formed in Colorado releases its debut album.
- Record Label: Kanine
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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| Bruises | |
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| I tried to do handstands for you I tried to do headstands for you Everytime I fell you on yeah everytime I fell I tried to do handstands for you But... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 11 out of 16
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Mixed: 5 out of 16
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Swathed as it is in the kind of ’80s arrangements of flutes and chiming guitars that have rarely been allowed beyond Carol Decker’s lushest, most velveteen fantasies, this album is an open goal to accusations of trend-following revivalism. But, like Ladyhawke’s debut, the sheer quality of songwriting justifies any retrospective leanings they may have.
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Under The RadarDoes You Inspire You is an inspirited debut that proves Brooklyn is still the indie king. [Winter 2008]
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The sonic pastiche of certain songs can be unwieldy and perplexing, with unsubtle shifts in musical styles or tones, an erratic rhythmic pace, and flat aural space. What sounds right though is Caroline’s mutable vocals that run the gamut from the eccentric, exclamatory delivery and word-twisting of Karen O to the soft drift of a subdued Polly Jean Harvey or Chan Marshall on the more serious numbers.
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Often lighter-than-air, Does You Inspire You? at times threatens to float away.
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'Bruises,' the latest in a long line of bouncy pop ditties to ingratiate themselves into our collective pop consciousness via an iPod commercial, proves that the band is capable of being poignant without taking themselves too seriously, but much of Does You Inspire You, like the ode to pencils 'Evident Utensil,' veers a little too far into silly territory to elevate the album above a well-made and well-performed oddity.
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UncutA triptych of gauzy electro-country duests show what they can do when they shake off some of their self-conscious wackiness. [Dec 2008, p.92]
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Does You Inspire You has a few high points, most of them hidden in the quieter corners of the album. In its more strident moments, though, it's just plain puzzling.
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