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  • Summary: The first new studio release in 22 years from the alternative rock band that now includes Rachel Haden, Tony Maxwell and Anna Waronker.
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  1. 90
    Old LP is so assured and confident, it’s easy to imagine another two decades of additional back catalogue we simply never heard. ... It’s a stunning success.
  2. Oct 15, 2019
    90
    Their skill at being witty but not arch, emotional but not overwrought, and calling out hypocrisy wherever they see it has only become keener, largely because Waronker is an even sharper, more articulate songwriter. ... A celebration of that dog.'s music that makes peace (or at least frenemies) with the past and proves, finally, that time is on their side.
  3. Oct 15, 2019
    80
    The music is denser and more intricate, conjuring symphonic grandeur alongside overdriven noise. The jokes are gone; the stakes feel higher. But the band’s underlying moxie hasn’t changed.
  4. Oct 17, 2019
    78
    It’s too early to say whether or not it’s better than Retreat from the Sun. But it definitely picks up where That Dog left off, delivering 11 pop-rock songs that are chunky in some places, lush in others and consistently resistant to settling into a tired pop-rock formula.
  5. Nov 27, 2019
    75
    Old LP is a steady, hard-won set of songs that unfold after many, compounded listens. The album took many years, many rehearsals, and many short, crammed studio sessions to record, but the reward becomes clearer with each listen.
  6. Oct 15, 2019
    74
    Old LP works because its growth doesn’t pander to modern notions of “cool.” But the way the band re-balances the grime-vs.-grandiosity equation with each song demonstrates that when it comes to musical math, the proof matters as much as the outcome.
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