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- Summary: The third album for the Chicago indie rock band is the first with Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelly.
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- Record Label: Kranky
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Shoegaze
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MojoMar 1, 2012With tensions at its core, Pre Language fuses white light with the darkness of anxiety. [Mar 2012, p.102]
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Mar 1, 2012Pre Language is some of Disappears' most confident, most accessible music yet.
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The WireApr 18, 2012Disappears present an album that sounds pretty confident in its pursuit of forward motion yet distractingly familiar. [Mar 2012, p.65]
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Mar 1, 2012This album feels more like a series of genre exercises, a place in which they occasionally work up a palpable tension, but never enough to make this more than an adequate diversion from the resources they're obviously sourcing.
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Apr 26, 2012As a whole Pre-Language appears a little unfulfilled--a whole lot of build up, with minimal release
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Mar 15, 2012Pre Language is frustrating not because it's bad, but because it could be so much better.
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Mar 1, 2012More often, Disappears's new sound plods--especially by comparison with the frantic, loopy movement through spacy echo chambers that characterized much of the group's material on Lux and Guider
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