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May 27, 2014Initiation won't win anyone over who wasn't already charmed by Dum Dum Girls or Crocodiles, but fans will welcome the addition that officially bridges the gap between two of garage rock's most prominent forces in recent history.
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May 27, 2014They say love is blind; on the basis of this intelligently balanced LP, though, it certainly isn't deaf.
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May 27, 2014The whole record is coated in a dense echo-fug, and is completely and utterly one-dimensional. But that, to be quite frank, is the strength of Initiation.
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May 27, 2014Those eight songs are noisy psychedelic pop at its best, however, on par with anything else treading a similar path.
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May 27, 2014By the time closing waltz 'Bring Me Down' ends, intimacy levels are so high that you feel like a contented voyeur.
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May 29, 2014It's honest music from the noise-pop couple, both of whom come into this project having broadened their sound within their own respective bands.
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May 27, 2014The tracks may not be anything particularly bold or new, but this formula has been honed for long enough to make them successful, largely at least.
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May 30, 2014Initiation is the type of album that’ll please many, infatuate a few, and fade from memory for the rest.