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We're On Your Side

Slaraffenland

We're On Your Side

Third album from the Copenhagen experimental pop outfit who occasionally stray into freeform jazz / folk

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Hometapes
UK Release date
12/04/2010
  1. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  2. 7.6 |   Pitchfork

    Falls on the less rigid end of the chamber-pop spectrum - downbeat but not dour, reveling in the sweet spot between structure and open-ended art-rock exploration
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  3. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    There’s something loose-limbed and free-flowing ... but there’s also a rigor to the dense instrumental patterns and arrangements
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  4. 7.0 |   God Is In The TV

    If only, there was more experimentation in terms of tempo and perhaps even in terms of melodic hooks because at times, these songs just need a massive chorus, or to just go anywhere at all
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  5. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    For what is loosely a pop record – if an experimental one – We're On Your Side remains marginally inaccessible
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  6. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    Taking the virtuoso musicianship, and taste for a pop hook that fellow countrymen Mew have so finely mastered, Slaraffenland have made something that sounds altogether more organic and gentle
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  7. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    All the variety and uncertainty does become a little wearing in places, and the vocals in particular often fail to live up to the music that accompanies them
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  8. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    Slaraffenland remain enchanting: a quintet of sonic explorers who pack their compositions with multiple complementary refrains that crackle with quiet energy
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