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Oct 12, 2015A remarkable album, one that only grows more awesome with each listen.
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Oct 16, 2015There’s a confidently dreamy quality running through most of the songs on Fading Frontier that gives off the impression of a group at peace with both itself and its place in the musical world.
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Oct 12, 2015Deerhunter’s inspiring and surprisingly triumphant seventh album.
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Oct 12, 2015Tight when they need to be but loose enough to explore the cosmos, Deerhunter sounds reinvigorated by the new attitude.
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UncutOct 8, 2015Fading Frontier strikes the most satisfying balance between menacing mantric grooves of 2006's Cryptograms and the pop melodicism that emerged on 2010's Halcyon Digest. [Nov 2015, p.82]
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Oct 13, 2015he made an indie pop album for music fans. He went for our hearts rather than our heads, and, for a band as cerebral as Deerhunter can be, that’s its own kind of artistic evolution.
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Oct 12, 2015If there isn't a Deerhunter sound, there's a Deerhunter perspective that runs through their work, best summed up in "All the Same"—"take your handicaps/ Channel them and feed them back/ Until they become your strengths." The weird era continues.
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Oct 13, 2015At nine songs and just over 36 minutes, Fading Frontier is a filler-free opus of experimental rock splendor that never lags and always intrigues.
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Oct 26, 2015Fading Frontier’s signature is focus though, and it’s evident in the concise and tightly controlled songwriting.
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Oct 16, 2015Deerhunter isn’t repeating itself: This creatively restless group doesn’t stand still for long.
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Oct 16, 2015Fading Frontier draws a new line in the sand, and it could be the beginning of a more direct and big-thinking Deerhunter.
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Oct 16, 2015Musically and emotionally, this is one of Deerhunter's most powerful--and delicate--albums.
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Oct 15, 2015Fading Frontier is another superlative achievement from a band who are, unfailingly, one of life’s great mysteries.
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Oct 15, 2015Deerhunter’s most straightforward, uplifting, pop-infused album to date: nine songs dispatched in a crisp 36 minutes.
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Oct 14, 2015The music is calmer, but his flare hasn't left with his anger, thus solidifying the album into the band's pristine legacy.
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Oct 14, 2015In terms of brightness and accessibility, the album feels like an extension of their breakout record, 2008's Microcastle. Yet it's clear the band has matured in the intervening years--and they're better for it.
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Oct 8, 2015They ensure Deerhunter's most accessible songs yet are also their most affecting. [Nov 2015, p.86]
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Oct 8, 2015Fading Frontier seems to be Deerhunter’s most crystal-clear record to date. Nine times out of 10, it’s precisely this clarity that allows their miasma of messages to hit home the hardest.
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Oct 16, 2015Deerhunter have returned to tasteful pop-shoegaze mode and made their mellowest, most lyric-driven, most calculated... and, err, most cheesiest album. Best Beach House record of 2015!
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Oct 16, 2015Fading Frontier follows 2013's dark-hued Monomania with a brighter, freer dream rock. It's their most eclectic album.
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Oct 16, 2015Nevertheless, this unsettled eclecticism notwithstanding, Fading Frontier does in fact sport some of Deerhunter’s most conventional and poppy material.
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Oct 14, 2015It shows that Deerhunter are every bit capable of making a fully inclusive, autobiographical, all-american, classic rock album and that would be a journey worth watching--from outcast weirdos to national treasures.
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Oct 14, 2015On Fading Frontier, Deerhunter focus on their ability as a band to hypnotize and confound, which make the explosive moments here stand out that much more.
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Oct 12, 2015Fading Frontier is probably Deerhunter’s fourth best album. It’s still an excellent record, but it’s just ever so slightly underwhelming.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 63 out of 67
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Mixed: 3 out of 67
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Negative: 1 out of 67
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