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With the drums and guitar so busy in the mix of almost every song, Keaton Snyder’s amped-up vibes are an inspired addition, their subtle atmospheric effects put to careful use by producer Phil Ek.
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This is, truly, an album worthy of obsession.
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Time to Die reveals a band that is continuing to grow with scintillating results. Luckily for us, no one’s sitting in the backseat here.
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The hurtling pace the Dodos maintain and the complexity they manage to fill into these tight spaces is fascinating, at times amazing, fitfully matching complexity with speed.
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Time to Die bests it as far as consistency goes.
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Time To Die has its heart in the right place, but the product is not as nearly lovable.
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Time to Die by itself isn’t a bad album, necessarily, but it’s not even close to the same level as Visiter and what made Dodos different to begin with. I hope that on their fourth album, these guys return to their roots.
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The key to The Dodos isn’t their lyrics, but their melodies. And on Time to Die, they’re strong and sufficient.
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Perhaps the idea was to make the Dodos’ introspection more overt, or to cushion the songs’ cryptic reflections on breakups, commercialism, mortality and global warming. The intricacies do come through. But these songs will sound better after they’ve been roughed up onstage.
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'Two Medicines' also shows off what the new, musically open Dodos can do, but until the vocals come into sync, an album-length high-water mark will remain elusive.
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Time to Die doesn’t seem to strive for anything, so it settles into being a pleasant little pop record, boring and bereft of character.
User score distribution:
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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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ShangoSep 15, 2009Great 3rd album. definitely worthy of listening to it over and over.