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On Veckatimest, by contrast, the experimentation can go over the top: the additional arrangements may not add much aside from being one more thing to admire. And, paradoxically, doing that moves some songs out of the avant-garde and squarely into the middle of the road.
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The result is a piece of art that had too much pressure ascribed to it, that found its creators trying too hard to make a masterpiece when they could have followed a more natural progression.
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MojoAwesome in scope and execution, it's an album that's ultimately easier to admire than it is to love. [Jun 2009, p.108]
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Their skilled playing remains modest enough, but on this subtler and more pretentious material, the skills predominate, and just in case they don't, let's add a string quartet here and real choirboys there.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 199 out of 216
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Mixed: 5 out of 216
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Negative: 12 out of 216
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Nov 5, 2010
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RyeR.May 29, 2009The year's best album. With a bullet.
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AndyMay 27, 2009