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Feb 7, 2022Time Skiffs splits the difference between the pop and the avant, spaced-out family-pad music with solid drumming, deep-distance percussion, wobbly melodies, and harmonies somehow more blissed out than anything else.
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Feb 7, 2022Every so often, the disparate parts coalesce into something enjoyable: We Go Back and Dragon Slayer both exhibit a lovely playfulness. Stretched over 48 minutes, though, there’s the sense that for all its undoubted cleverness, Time Skiffs is not terribly easy to warm to.
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Feb 4, 2022Time Skiffs isn’t terrible; it’s inoffensive, nice, surprisingly easy-going.
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Feb 3, 2022As it is, it feels like an act of quiet consolidation rather than a breakthrough, aimed squarely at existing fans, unbothered by grabbing anyone else’s attention.
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Feb 3, 2022For a band renowned for their experimentation it doesn’t feel like much new ground is covered on Time Skiffs and even after years of waiting, by the end of the album you’re left wanting more.
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Feb 2, 2022These songs are like travel diaries full of passing observations and attempts to make sense of them within a grander picture. The album carries a somber tone. Loneliness and a longing for something distant, perhaps warmth and affection, permeate these songs.
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The WireJan 25, 2022While 2016’s Painting With was a jumble of interesting ideas lacking direction, Time Skiffs is the opposite: a paint by numbers indie pop affair completed using a quirky palette. While paring down to a more focused format is welcome, the music is suffocated by anachronisms, both within AC’s own and wider pop contexts. [Feb 2022, p.46]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 30
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Mixed: 2 out of 30
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Negative: 1 out of 30
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Feb 4, 2022Good ol AC back in a mix of all their best sides imo! Started laughing from the first song being so catchy.