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- Summary: Stephin Merritt returns to his indie-pop side project with ex-Figures On A Beach keyboardist Christopher Ewen and Claudia Gonson for the trio's first full-length release in over a decade.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Indie Pop
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MagnetJun 17, 2013Partygoing is arguably as good as Memories Of Love. [No.99, p.54]
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Jun 4, 2013Not everything here works.... The rest, delightfully, sounds like nothing else around.
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Jun 4, 2013Few bands are clever enough to make you feel giddy singing a song called “Keep Your Children in a Coma.” Gonson, as usual, is a refreshingly natural singer, bringing heart and soul to songs that would seem to be bereft of such qualities.
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Jun 4, 2013Despite the fact that this new LP plays heavily to Merritt’s inclinations toward kid-on-a-carousel constructions, he’s continued to write what he knows--gearing his lyrics toward aging, loss, death, and romantic dissolution.
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Jun 10, 2013On the one hand, Partygoing is refreshingly in sync with the group’s first two albums. On the other, each feels like its own concept album of sorts.
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Jun 7, 2013As always, the darkness is cut with moments of mirth, even though no one will mistake this for a dance party soundtrack.
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Jun 6, 2013The squelchy playfulness in Ewen’s arrangements that marked FBH’s most memorable tunes is now cloistered by cynicism and studiousness.
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