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Joan of Arc
- Record Label: Jade Tree
- Release Date: Feb 4, 2003
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The group's finest creation yet.
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If you didn't like Joan Of Arc, this album still might not win you over, but it definitely strays away from the sheer oddness of their last couple releases.
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Alternative PressIt's hardly the pop album the liner notes indicate, but it's sweetly spellbinding, slouching toward another corner of the underground. [Mar 2003, p.92]
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An ambitious and artful set of songs.
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Whether you find Kinsella's brand of experimental pop insufferably pretentious or delightfully challenging (I find it a bit of both), you have to give the man credit for his vision.
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MojoStill very much on the cerebral side of math-pop, Joan Of Arc have rarely sounded so open and welcoming. [Feb 2003, p.91]
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A mellow, slightly sub-decent album delivered at the wrong time.
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A welcome return to somewhat traditional songwriting.
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Flashes of the energy and precision JOA exhibit in the live forum are, arguably for the first time, perfectly realized here.
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The result is a grand step back into listenability.
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The WireIt might sound unbearably contrived, but the combination of crystalline guitar, sly time signatures and Kinsella's stream of consciousness lyrical musings makes for an unexpectedly coherent whole. [#229, p.68]
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BrandonS.Oct 24, 2003Good CD.