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Oct 13, 2011For an album with no discernible weak links--we'll deduct a mark simply because half these songs were previously available--the final quarter is where Veronica Falls finds itself elevated alongside 2011's best.
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Sep 22, 2011The album sounds effortless and truly organic in the best sense of the word, like four people blending together to make one perfectly formed sound.
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Jan 24, 2012There's a potent energy to the music.
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Sep 22, 2011While the songs sound effortlessly crafted, there's a complexity to the melodies and structures that surprises on repeat listens.
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Sep 27, 2011The songs are mostly good enough to sustain interest through multiple listens.
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Sep 22, 2011There's a striking physicality to these songs, and Guy Fixsen and Ash Workman's production makes every tambourine beat hit with the clarity of a shattering window.
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Oct 19, 2011Despite the odd patch of fluffier filler, it's still filled with enough dark delights to send tingles up and down your spine.
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Oct 10, 2011Mostly it's hard to say what puts Veronica Falls over the top in a genre where so many fall flat. Enthusiasm? Personality? Songs? Probably all of that, as well as the indefinable quality that makes old genres come alive again.
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Oct 10, 2011Given time, it's enjoyably addictive.
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Oct 4, 2011The boy-girl harmonies on this album at least suggest the possibility of outside points of view, but really, Ms. Clifford's tension is everything.
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Sep 27, 2011An excitable sound, great vocal harmonies, a jangling noise that is immensely listenable: It's all here, it's catchy as hell, and it's exciting.
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Sep 22, 2011While this sense of restraint feels deliberate, it does raise hopes that the band will fully go off the deep end the next time around. Nevertheless, Veronica Falls is an overall engaging album of contrasts.
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Q MagazineNov 9, 2011Their vampiric draining of the past cleverly becomes an energizing indie infusion. [Nov. 2011, p. 142]
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Nov 2, 2011Veronica Falls are enjoyable to listen to, but they don't seem to offer more than that fleeting smile.
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Oct 17, 2011Even if they're a hard band to fall in love with, this record is ridiculously easy to admire.
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Oct 13, 2011For a group so in thrall to death, there's a surprising amount of life here.
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Sep 28, 2011Veronica Falls have carved into a niche that will always have a small but loyal following which will baffle those on the outside. Newcomers would do well to do their homework first, and enjoy this debut with a thousand points of reference.
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Under The RadarNov 9, 2011On this debut they often seem too busy trying to charm our pants off. [Oct. 2011, p. 106]
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MojoJan 19, 2012An explicitly shambling and weedy breed of music rendered with slavish precision, even muscularity... Decent tunes. [Dec 2011, p.100]