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Jun 25, 2015On The Sovereign Self, they combine to remarkable effect. This is not an easy record, but it needs to be heard. Again and again.
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Jul 15, 2015An extension of their ever-evolving canon, The Sovereign Self is possibly Trembling Bells' most colorful journey yet, with a wayfaring rock & roll spirit and a madcap zeal that keep it sounding fresh.
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Jul 14, 2015Well worth imbibing.
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Jul 13, 2015Whilst sounding altogether more psychologically and sonically cluttered, the challenges this album presents are as invigorating as its rewards--poetic beauty can still be found amidst the lysergic confusion.
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Jun 30, 2015Sprawling, strange, baffling and beguiling, this psychedelic treasure is unlikely to appeal to the unadventurous, but it’s hard to imagine there will be another album released anywhere this year that’s quite like it.
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MojoJun 25, 2015Plangent retro charm. [Jul 2015, p.89]
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The WireJul 27, 2015His voice is better suited to confiding, but it's slapped on top rather than properly featured, and this seems symptomatic of the muddy arranging, But the aim is to swagger and excite, and the group's ragged fervour is not in doubt. [Jun 2015, p.50]
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Jun 25, 2015The quintet are a crack unit, powered by hard rock riffs, jazz and Krautrock-informed drums and flights of flute-based fancy.
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UncutJun 25, 2015The breadth is a big part of the charm. [Jul 2015, p.83]
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Jul 2, 2015There are some fine songs here, from the gloriously strange O, Where Is Saint George? to the epic I Is Someone Else, but the album’s excitedly noisy production would benefit from greater degree of variety.