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Alternative PressThere hasn't been a song-oriented psychedelic album that's had this sort of life-affirming, full-bodied roar since Mercury Rev's 1993 classic, Boces. [June 2003, p.110]
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Some of the most euphoric, mind-blowingly beautiful music we have heard in years.
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Up In Flames is a record in love with music made by a music lover, futurepsychenoisebeatpop that reaffirms how much fun music can and ought to be.
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With Up in Flames, the sound of post-electronica has arrived.
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Entertainment WeeklyThese laptop-pop fractals... deliver spectacular hip-hop drum breaks and the sort of mile-deep multi-tracking that makes digital technology so much fun. [Listen 2 This supplement, Apr 2003, p.12]
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UncutBoth adventurous and accessible, a record in love with the obliterating power of sound. [Apr 2003, p.120]
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His tracks are vibrant and imaginative, calling on fuzzed-out guitar solos and summer-day vocals that recall a raft of solid shoegazers.
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The fusion of rhythm with textural washes of sound is near perfect in its seamless euphoria.
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The WireApproaches the psychedelic grandeur of Spiritualized or Mercury Rev at their finest while still offering a wealth of carefully placed sonic detail. [#229, p.71]
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Because Up in Flames is so focused on big moments and aural candy, it's wise that Snaith decided to keep the record under 40 minutes. He blows you out and then packs it up.
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Once again, Snaith has surprised just about everyone, and Up In Flames will likely go down as one of my favorite albums of the year.
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Though Manitoba's constructions are joyously slap-dash and defiantly experimental, he still manages to lure the listener in with woozy melodies and strangely beguiling textures.
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MojoA claustrophobic, mesmeric soundscape akin to My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3's early work. [Apr 2003, p.114]
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A dizzyingly crafted explosion.
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UrbLaptop pop that shimmers, shakes and twists like the precocious child of Aphex Twin, Spiritualized and the Beatles. [Aug 2003, p.89]
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Up in Flames isn't the next revolution of electro-pop, but it's a damn good try.
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The result of this multi-layered synergy, and what helps separate it from its soulless similars, is a record that is all at once satisfyingly complex, but also invitingly warm.
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Manitoba is a lunatic and a fool, and his strange music, crafted from nature and machine and birdsong and the wind and the air and the seas and THE GODS... it is a fine, fine thing indeed.
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Under The RadarUp In Flames begs repeated listens and rewards those listens with depth and artistry. [#5, p.110]
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Q MagazineMost tracks follow a simple formula: the vocal from Don't Stop by the Stone Roses + layers of chimes + dog barks + crashing drums = mess. [Jun 2003, p.100]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 27
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Mixed: 3 out of 27
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Negative: 1 out of 27
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Feb 8, 2011
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SimonGJan 11, 2007
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MattApr 20, 2006