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- Summary: This is the debut full-length collaboration between Chaz Bundick and The Mattson 2.
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- Record Label: Company Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Mar 29, 2017[Bundick’s] in his element here, embracing the improvisational jazz of The Mattson 2 as together they pry open your third eye and flood your mind with their cosmic apparitions.
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Mar 29, 2017The result is a sprawling, warm and idiosyncratic album that doesn't sound as much like collaboration as it probably could have.
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Mar 30, 2017Overall, Star Stuff is an enjoyable exercise in semi-constructed jamming and vintage-sounding tones by a trio of skilled musicians, and continues Bundick's evolution toward a more analog texture and approach.
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Mar 29, 2017Even in its most indulgent turns, Star Stuff serves its purpose: After making an overly disciplined live album for zero spectators, it’s refreshing to hear Bundick really jam like no one’s looking.
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Mar 29, 2017Occasionally the players wax overly noodly--"Steve Pink" doesn't really need to exist, and the album wanders a bit before the vocals finally start on the third track--but overall this is an enjoyable collaboration for any lover of spaced-out, swirly psych-pop.
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Mar 31, 2017The eight-minute sprawl of ‘Don’t Blame Yourself’, too, is wildly self-indulgent and could have had at least a couple of minutes lopped off. Ultimately, though, he sounds rejuvenated on Star Stuff, and that bodes well for whatever he has lined up next.
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Q MagazineApr 12, 2017The sunny hooks of the title track and Disco Kid's funky backsbeat display similar flair, though indulgent wig-outs such as Don't Blame Yourself could do with an edit. [Jun 2017, p.105]
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