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- Summary: The southern Californian indie rock quartet releases its follow-up to its self-titled debut.
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- Record Label: Mexican Summer
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
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Positive: 15 out of 20
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Mixed: 5 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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MagnetDec 4, 2012The band has simply folded its past into a bigger, richer whole. [No. 93, p.58]
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Sep 26, 2012While these graduates are busy looking for a nail on which to hang their new diplomas, make sure you've got a needle to play their new record.
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Sep 24, 2012Strapped isn't a bad album so much as a strangely scattered one, revealing the Soft Pack caught between delivering what they're known for and what they might like to become.
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Alternative PressSep 24, 2012The fun carries all the way until the album's lengthy psychedelic jam, "Captain Ace," which bursts with wild saxophone and shows how to capture a brilliant act of Tape. [Oct 2012, p.92]
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Oct 3, 2012That their kitchen-sink approach yielded as many wins as it did on Strapped bodes very well for The Soft Pack, oddly enough presenting a band that has proven it's more than its record collection, and possesses a heretofore unseen amount of creative restlessness.
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Sep 24, 2012Long and lush isn't a bad look for the Soft Pack, so long as they're keeping the beat.
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Sep 25, 2012For a band who made their name on straightforward, meat-and-potatoes indie pop, Strapped is all over the place.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Dec 15, 2012
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