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8.5
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Northern Transmissions
A departure from the easy listening that fans love, and challenges listeners in a more confrontational urgency and intensity
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8.0
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8.0 |
Far Out
There’s a grand achievement in assembling a record so abstract but universal
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
Album highlight "Rag" is at least as incendiary as well as catchy, with drops, shouty starts, and stops making it even more unstable. That song is like a microcosm of the album
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8.0
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8.0 |
Exclaim
Sadistic and reckless as biking home past curfew with blood in your mouth and a smirk on your face, Maine's portrait of suburban America wants to take us all down with it… and who are we to resist?
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
For those willing to dive into its depths, Shirt offers a homespun experience that further cements Aaron Maine’s place as one of the more singular voices in contemporary indie music
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7.0
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Uncut
As Shirt progresses, grungey riffs begin to cut through on “Itch” and the White Stripes-y chorus of “Rag”. Elsewhere, his slacker songcraft commands evermore empathy as “Voices In My Head” employs a neat acoustic motif and “Music” offers a piano-led lullaby to close a short, deceptively sweet affair. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
Mojo
Plunges him back to the old soundworld of heavily Auto-Tuned ballads (of the 12 tracks here, only Bread Believer is pacey) and a voice that sounds like it’s on the verge of tears, even if the lyrics sound more disorientated than tragic. .... But Maine’s nagging melodies hold up, and Shirt still feels convincingly real. Print edition only
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