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Valende is really a more significant album than a lot of people seem to be giving it credit for being, and one hopes that it will be remembered as such.
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If you get one psych album this year, make it Valende.
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Entertainment WeeklySyd Barrett meets Fellini. [28 Jan 2005, p.85]
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We find ourselves encountering songs that give themselves the time and space to breathe, build, incorporate shimmering choirs of backing singers and more layered overdubs than you can shake a stick at into the mix.
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Alternative PressMost of Valende's songs have that creepy nursery-rhyme thing that people who read too much Lewis Carroll would call "whimsy." [Mar 2005, p.132]
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As familiar as the psychedelic reference points may be, Jennifer Gentle are able to distill them into something contemporary, or at least make listeners feel like contemporaries of a psychedelic era, both past and present.
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It reveals a manic, uncommon glint in their inventive fires, the unmistakable fervid gleam which accompanies artists who know exactly what they're doing, even if the rest of us don't.
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Sweet Jesus, these guys sound like Syd Barrett.
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Effortlessly charming and strangely compelling, despite moments of complete and utter unlistenability.
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It's hard to hear some of these songs coming from the same country, let alone the same band, as some of the others, and this lack of stylistic (or any sort of) cohesion may prove Jennifer Gentle's undoing.
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MojoA kaleidoscopic funfair of angloid psychedelia, baroque folk-pop and open-minded sonic exploration. [Mar 2005, p.96]
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Its sagging middle aside, Valende may be one of the stronger psychedelic pop releases to come my way in the last couple of years.
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JG manages to both make fun and have fun, their music more goofy than cynical.
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MagnetWhimsical, immaculately realized music. [#67, p.98]
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Paste MagazineAn esoteric, wonderfully eccentric psychedelic record. [#14, p.123]
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You're left wondering what you just ingested, and how you can score more.
User score distribution:
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Negative: 1 out of 9
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AaronJ.Mar 19, 2005Very strange voice! Very naive spychedelia!
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charlotterFeb 7, 2005
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JDBurtonFeb 6, 2005best album i bought in a while. warm, subtle acid folk from two Italian guys who took too much lsd.