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Jul 6, 2016Despite its moments of lucid release, Minor Victories mostly likes to loom in the shadows with hardly any form at all.
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Jul 1, 2016The frustration bubbles under the surface for the listener, that, competent and effecting as this album is, it could have been so much more. Here’s to next time.
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Jun 24, 2016If you’ve heard their main/prior bands then the sound of this won’t surprise you, but it’ll still feel like an old friend that you always pick up right where you left off.
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Jun 20, 2016All the members’ parent groups are associated with dramatic music, but arguably in quite different styles, and the first few numbers are what you’d expect Editors to produce if they got hold of previous collaborator Goswell and placed her inappropriately high in the mix.
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Q MagazineJun 6, 2016Comically, the group never actually met while recording it. Imagine what they could do in the same room. [#361, p.112]
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May 31, 2016What’s missing, though, is the central promise of a supergroup: the thrill of hearing established musicians in a truly different context. Minor Victories’ lineup may stem from different circles, but their approaches are so complementary that there’s rarely any tension or surprise.
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Jun 3, 2016There’s some beautiful string parts, synth that rolls off sullenly into a distant horizon, and a pretty mean glockenspiel on “For You Always,” but the vocals ruin it. They don’t fit at all. It makes the album hard to swallow in the end, like an amazing deep dish pizza covered in green onions.
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Negative: 2 out of 17
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