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Mar 18, 2014Mind Trap is a triumph of feelings over ideas, of making sounds bigger and more mobile than the spaces (or heads) that contain them.
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Jan 30, 2014An at times minimal sounding album with steps and layers that build towards something. The music and the art stand apart, but they’re inevitably intertwined.
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Jan 30, 2014An adventurous and fun record.
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The WireMar 28, 2014This album certainly achieves a kind of elaborated decorative wonkiness, but one wonders, as with Creed's paintings, what there is to return to after the novelty's worn off. [Mar 2014, p.52]
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Q MagazineMar 18, 2014The orchestral pieces with their abrupt phrasing and lumpen scales, merely sound like one of those conceptual "jokes" no one except artworld insiders are in on. [Apr 2014, p.105]
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Feb 4, 2014Its problems arise not out of any dearth of talent or skill, but out of its unfiltered sincerity and relentless positivity--qualities that are hardly problematic in themselves.
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UncutFeb 3, 2014The first half of Mind Trap is dedicated to a sort of naifish folk-rock, flirting with the banal but occasionally happening on moments of quiet loveliness. [Mar 2014, p.73]
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Jan 30, 2014A collection of songs and 'works', the latter of which clutter the end of the record with a mess of somewhat ill composed 'classical' pieces, Mind Trap largely acts as a collection of initial ideas, with no songs feeling overly finished.
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Jan 30, 2014It takes the form of a vanity project rather than a perceptive communication between artist and listener.