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Feb 11, 2013There are parts that gel, and others that are just plain strange: flippant tone shifts, gritty electronica jarring with the twinkling guitars and Deez’s hearty warbling.
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Feb 11, 2013Flitting between 1980s soul-pop and jerky indie, it has its big, brash, pop-rock moments.
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Q MagazineFeb 8, 2013To truly get into the spirit, though, you'll need to have an attention span longer than his own. [Mar 2013, p.96]
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Feb 8, 2013[The album] is a natural progression from the first, as the band’s distinctively jangly, incessantly upbeat guitars are remodelled in increasingly eccentric ways.
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Feb 15, 2013Smith comes across similarly disenchanted and tempted by the prospect on Songs for Imaginative People, where he's torn between celebrating and bemoaning commercial excess.
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Feb 12, 2013More often these tracks wander in search of melodies that seem frustratingly out of reach.
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Feb 7, 2013This album unfortunately fails to showcase his strengths, and proves something of an obstacle course for the listener to negotiate.