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Quit +/or Fight Image
Metascore
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  • Summary: This is the second album of country-folk-rock tunes for the Gainesville, Florida band led by John Orth.
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  1. Like Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Quit +/or Fight flirts with perfection, a cohesive collection of all-too-fleeting pleasures.
  2. Quit +/or Fight may lack the immediate melodic punch of the band's debut-- it forsakes pristine strums for skewering electric guitar and scrappier arrangements-- but what the record sacrifices in warmth, it makes up for in atmospherics.
  3. Imagine a highly narcotic Shins with even more subtle instrumentation and you're getting somewhere close.
  4. A work far more potent and lasting than their debut.
  5. Like R.E.M.'s vaunted Murmur, these songs are most adept at creating worlds for the listener to enter and engage, which may be different with every spin.
  6. Under The Radar
    70
    The songs aren't quite as immediate as their self-titled debut, but... they're making folk friendly for the electronic age. [#10, p.115]
  7. Magnet
    40
    Nearly buries itself in interesting ideas that are ultimately unrewarding. [#69, p.98]

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