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- Summary: The trio (which includes Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger) return with their first new album in four years, produced by Steve Osborne.
- Record Label: Nettwerk
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
| Feel So Free | |
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| Ask me again I'll take my chances I don't know how to begin You can't understand I've got no answers I can't explain where I've been I should've... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 12 out of 16
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Mixed: 4 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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The sophisticated retro-pop sound, dreamy melodies and soft electronic beats of Ivy do more to further international relations than any George W. Bush visit could ever hope to.
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MojoIt finds the group's estimable strengths consolidated as never before. [Jun 2005, p.112]
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Simultaneously exciting and relaxing.
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Introduces a delectable bit of shoegazery energy and distortion to sharpen up the lulling Ivy groove.
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The album tries to conjure the anchorlessness of travel, but instead it sounds oddly weightless, floating by pleasantly but unobtrusively and rarely demanding your attention.
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Lyrics are far and away the album's weakest point, consisting more often than not in pat, stock-sounding phrases.
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Once you get past the initial, pleasing familiarity, though, In the Clear becomes a decidedly middling listening experience.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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KarlHMar 4, 2005Classic Ivy. Why isn't this band more well known?!
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MelodieMMar 14, 2005
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VinceH.Mar 5, 2005
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