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Dec 7, 2011Perhaps the most tangible set of songs he has produced yet.
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Oct 17, 2011Where Living With Yourself found McGuire sticking to moody, simple melodies, Get Lost inches up the volume a little.
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Oct 17, 2011With Get Lost, McGuire has nudged toward both goals, and while in many ways, for long time fans, this is exactly what you'd expect a 2011 Mark McGuire album to sound like.
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Nov 15, 2011Get Lost may not be the incredible experience that Living was, but it's still a very enjoyable listen.
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Oct 17, 2011The album is warm, well paced, reassuring, confident and manageable in length; it's also self-consciously naïve in feeling, floppy and weirdly distant.
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Oct 17, 2011Get Lost [is] McGuire's most accessible album to date.
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Jan 11, 2012McGuire still seems all too comfortable and way too sure of exactly where he stands on Get Lost.
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Jan 11, 2012Beyond the structural suture of earthen folk is a dazzling spectacle of unguitar-like effects and affects.
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UncutOct 18, 2011Get Lost marks him out as descendant of Manuel Gottsching and Vini Reilly, stringing pretty guitar motifs and quiet, whispered vocals into ringing loops. [Nov 2011, p.93]
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Oct 17, 2011His latest is dedicated to "the spirit of the summer night sky," and that's an accurate, if slightly cornball, description of these six impressionistic guitar instrumentals.
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The WireDec 6, 2011Get Lost is no worse (and no better) than 2010's Living With Yourself. [Oct 2011, p.56]
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Nov 2, 2011It was obviously made with care, and, as an result, is pretty easy on the ears. Much of it is also over-saturated, poured on too thick, and it can be cloying in its polite pleasantness.