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Hayes’ performance on this album is so stellar one wonders why others don’t shoot this high.
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As nourishing as it is satisfying, Fed will leave you craving more.
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UncutFed is beautifully excessive, ornamented with dazzling soul/pop arrangements. [Sep 2008, p.114]
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For Fed, [Hayes] recruited everyone from veteran R&B arranger Tom Tom MMLXXXIV to jazz session drummer Morris Jennings to stalwart indie noisemaker Steve Albini to create a record as rich, complex, and ornate as the previous record was simple and spare.
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Ingenuity and sincerity (two things in which Hayes excels) are priceless, and the sum of the parts is quite a masterpiece indeed.
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MojoFed is something of a lost classic. [Sep 2008, p.123]
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With Fed, Liam Hayes seems to know that he has made an overly ambitious, maybe even hubristic album. He also doesn’t seem to care much about that, making it that much more appealing.
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I believe that if you can get past the record’s obvious shortcomings, there is quite a bit of beauty to be found.
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Plush's vision was obviously reaching beyond his abilities when making this album, and though that's commendable--better to try and fail than not try at all--sometimes you acheive less on the road to greatness.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 13
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Mixed: 0 out of 13
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Negative: 3 out of 13
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Oct 30, 2018
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Oct 2, 2010