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All Music
Even setting sequencing, production, and stylistic reference points aside, EELS is simply chock-full of great songs
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9.0
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Northern Transmissions
Being Dead’s EELS is a triumph in pushing the boundaries of surf rock. It’s a fascinating album full of experimentation and introspection
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PopMatters
Austin’s Being Dead offer up a bizarre, disjointed realm that constantly shifts, sweeping you up and launching you into the most unexpected places
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Pitchfork
With deceptively lo-fi hooks and a playfully oblique approach, the Austin rock duo crafts songs that are goofy, serious, innocent, and knowing all at once
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8.3
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Paste Magazine
The Austin, Texas band remain subversive pop-rock wizards who are not only capable of writing great songs, but also willing to then keep pushing those songs into interesting, unexpected places on their second LP
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The Line Of Best Fit
The collection is inventive yet grounded and unpretentious, a genuinely modern interpretation on the tenets of punk that still carry weight
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Far Out
Being Dead have so many ideas up their sleeves, the potentialities are endless
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Under The Radar
As a whole, EELS may not reach the energetic frenzy of last year’s When Horses Would Run, but it more than makes up for it in the sheer breadth of shade and color Being Dead infuses into its 44-minute runtime
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