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Aug 27, 2015The songs are each densely packed musically, but so taught and unpredictable that it's clear that they are the vision of a single creative mind. Angel Deradoorian's mind is vibrant and open, and on The Expanding Flower Planet she's inviting you for a visit.
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Aug 25, 2015She understands the properties and possibilities of an expanding flower plant and lets the idea of such possibility guide her songwriting. It channels the ancient and mythological without succumbing entirely, and supersedes it with the daring spirit of a 21st century woman.
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Aug 21, 2015It’s a very brave record where Deradoorian eschews the traditional language of pop music to create her own pictures and conversations and turn them into brilliantly beautiful songs.
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Aug 31, 2015Deradoorian’s world is as dreamy, hippyish and hipster as her album title suggests and it’s deliciously easy to get lost in it with her.
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Aug 26, 2015Having graduated from both Dirty Projectors and Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, The Expanding Flower Planet is a confident declaration of independence from a vital artist operating at the top of her creative game.
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Aug 25, 2015Certainly, though, Deradoorian has demonstrated here that she is a confident, mature and distinctive artist.
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Q MagazineAug 25, 2015At its best she sounds like St. Vincent with finger cymbals and a kaftan, a talent blooming on her own terms. [Oct 2015, p.106]
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Aug 21, 2015Deradoorian's songwriting pulls together colliding ideas and sounds, and it works on the eccentric and restless The Exploding Flower Planet.
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Aug 21, 2015Sometimes, her influences are obvious but her exploratory enthusiasm is ultimately winning, and her vocals layered in a way that pivots on the cusp of the sensual and the spiritual.
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Aug 20, 2015The Expanding Flower Planet feels like an album full of trap doors, where a single, unexpected sound can deposit you into new worlds.
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Aug 21, 2015Fans of minimalist beats, layered and lovely vocals, and a general appreciation for stoner krautrock vibes would do well to seek it out.
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Aug 27, 2015Such immersive panoramas are the ultimate reward of a record that tries to take listeners to places they've never been. It doesn't always work, but that's the beauty of The Expanding Flower Planet—its songs are unconventional, enveloping and mesmerising.
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Aug 21, 2015She hasn't yet released one that's consistently exciting and satisfying from beginning to end, though there's more than enough here to make this worth a listen and to suggest that Deradoorian could have more interesting things up her sleeve for her next solo effort.
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UncutAug 20, 2015The ornate multitracked chorales retain a heady intensity. [Sep 2015, p.73]
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Aug 20, 2015An imaginary world is striking not because of its contents, but because of the way in which we view them--detached, overwhelmed, inspired--a feeling Deradoorian captures with exciting promise on her debut LP.
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Aug 20, 2015Deradoorian’s arrangements now feel less exploratory than rudderless, her harmonies more droning than direct.
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Aug 26, 2015Whilst Deradoorian’s ambitions were undoubtedly high in creating The Expanding Flower Planet, the end result is more miss than hit, leaning too heavily and too often on dense harmonies at a slow pace which ends in a record lacking cohesion and direction.
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