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An often gorgeous and heartbreaking record, Wildlife is kept out of the canon of great growing-pains albums by some stagnant lyrics.
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Headlights' third album, Wildlife, is at once their most immediate album and also their most reserved-sounding and emotionally powerful.
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So Wildlife isn't exactly bursting at the seams with earworms, but it's a worthy achievement for taking a poignant, powerful emotional state and carrying its thread for 42 minutes.
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Under The RadarThough Wildlife is undoubtedly meditative in nature, the most solemn and somber album in the band's catalog thus far, one can also hear Headlights rising above, pulling itself up oyt of the emotional mire. [Fall 2009, p.58]
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Alternative PressIt still feels like they have a bit more work to do before their albums are consistently exciting from start to finish. [Nov 2009, p.109]
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The well-established indie-pop tricks get results, but are too unerringly calculated to have much distinct personality. Some big, billowy production would have helped.
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In the gloomier, more experimental moments, Wildlife merely captures the sound of a band weathering growing pains that will hopefully pass with time.
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Wildlife is nothing more than an album that sounds fine in the background--even at a volume you couldn’t help but pay attention to--yet ultimately fails to make any kind of memorable impression.