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Jan 24, 2012A quirky and sincere collection.
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Jan 24, 2012It's far from perfect, but Dear Reader's Idealistic Animals is undoubtedly a bold second album, with the almost cathartic outpouring from MacNeil giving it an unnerving and eerie beauty.
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UncutJan 24, 2012These Aesop-style animal-themed fables combine elegantly quirky orchestral chamber-pop arrangements with barbed and knotted lyrics. [Feb 2012, p.84]
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Jan 24, 2012Musically, it's nowhere near as life-changing as its subject matter, but MacNeil's mortality menagerie make cute enough companions in the void.
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Jan 24, 2012This insistence on maxing out on subplot, comes at the expense of an initially intriguing premise and, ultimately, your attention span.