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Mar 5, 2013Ultimately, Naomi doesn’t stray too far from The Cave Singers’ previous output, but she, like any good muse, will captivate, invigorate and satiate.
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Alternative PressMar 4, 2013The Cave Singers find a way to remove the corniness from a jammy folk album, instead building Naomi with honest lyrics and a soothing ramble of guitars. [Apr 2013, p.86]
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Mar 4, 2013Not without fault, the album is a solid, cohesive work--and sign of The Cave Singers’ electrifying potential.
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Mar 6, 2013The band demonstrates a keen awareness of how much to push and pull in any particular direction in its now firmly established folk/blues/rock axis.
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Mar 4, 2013The simple moments are offset by grander, more exciting ones.
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Mar 4, 2013The band hasn't strayed too far from what made it successful in its beginnings, but with Naomi, they've shifted their energy into producing the aural equivalent of a cloudless summer day.
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Mar 8, 2013The result: catchy and chilling songs that cling to the corners of your mind and remain with you through and through.
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Aug 9, 2013Certainly, there’s a fine line in-between a record bearing cohesion and every song being a clone of the tune before it, but Naomi suffers, even if slightly so, from multiple personalities.
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Q MagazineApr 10, 2013There isn't quite enough to genuinely stand out from the crowd. [May 2013, p.98]
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MagnetMar 15, 2013Their fourth full-length has the band members grabbing snippets of musical influence from all over the Pitchfork-approved map. [No. 96, p.54]
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Mar 13, 2013Naomi is a decent album, not a good one.
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Mar 4, 2013Competent. Completely forgettable.
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Mar 4, 2013On Naomi, the Cave Singers don’t really fail at anything; however, save for a couple of moments, they don’t offer up anything all that memorable either.
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Mar 6, 2013The varying topics and often-indistinct lyrics miscommunicate, making this record better suited for easy listening than deep delving.
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Mar 4, 2013Ultimately though, they don’t commit enough to the sonic range which they eventually bring to bear, focusing too much on middle-of-the-road indie-folk.