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- Summary: This is the second album for the Baltimore duo formally known as Monarch.
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 10 out of 14
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Mixed: 4 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Wye Oak isn’t breaking any new ground in the exciting field of drone-exploration, but the band’s tone is striking--like a tuning fork with the blues.
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The Knot turns the cliche about sophomore slumps on its head by being much stronger than If Children.
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Lost in most of the noise and clutter was Jenn Wasner’s fantastic voice and Andy Stack’s ability as a “wall of sound” creator. On their new album, The Knot, these skills are not only refined but they showcase a wider, more advanced decadence and a band that sounds that much better, because of it.
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The Knot may not be a full-out Great Album, but it does contain a lot of moments that are dangerously close, and taken as a whole it is surprisingly well-developed for a band still getting started.
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Under The RadarThe Knot displays a band more confident of itself and its powers. [Summer 2009, p.63]
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FilterTHe Knot is an iron-willed, albeit reserved, expansion of the duo's sound. [Summer 2009, p.106]
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Songs rarely pick up from a crawl. Sustained guitar chords fan out and crush whatever momentum the band gets going. The bursts of distortion that colored If Children are almost pornographically expanded.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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CarlSOct 17, 2009Superb sounding album from start to finish. lush and dense layers, terrific songs all the way through.
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