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- Summary: This is the second full-length release for the Detroit indie rock band.
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- Record Label: Woodsist
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mar 22, 2018Where earlier tracks tended, endearingly, to drift and wander, these new ones move not faster but with more purpose, as if they have somewhere to get to.
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Mar 22, 2018Longwave channels the low-key indie pop sound of (Sandy) Alex G and Frankie Cosmos. Bonny Doon have proven their ability to transform their complex songwriting and vivid melodies into experiences that resemble those long hours of elusive conversations we crave.
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May 25, 2018Longwave is a gently simple record but one which manages to exert an almost hypnotic pull.
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Mar 23, 2018There’s a stark immediacy to the production on Longwave, rendering the band’s simple arrangements and basic chords without a shade of embellishment. They’d much rather use negative space than a dynamic flourish.
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UncutMar 22, 2018Longwave is languorous and amiable. ... The largely unchanging pace prompts yearnings for more frequent shifts from second gear, however. [May 2018, p.26]
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Mar 28, 2018The Detroit quartet's debut album for Woodsist is at times striking and catchy, but also finds itself digging up the same nostalgia-seeking melodies that showed some promise from Bonny Doon to begin with.
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Q MagazineApr 10, 2018Longwave is more improvisational, and the results are even more spidery than before. [Jun 2018, p.109]
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