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Napa Asylum

Sic Alps

Napa Asylum

The Californian garage rockers with album number four

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
24/01/2011
  1. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    This may be Sic Alps’ best album to date
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  2. 8.5 |   Bowlegs

    The album absolutely buzzes: from the guitars to the production
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  3. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    They've wisely stuck to their patient, understated approach-- and pretty much perfected it
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  4. 8.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    If we can get past recording equipment and sound quality for a moment and consider song craft and execution specifically, Sic Alps are clearly both miles ahead of and miles away from their peers
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  5. 8.0 |   AU Review

    It’s paced perfectly and full of high points, if you can take the harsher moments
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  6. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  7. 8.0 |   AU Review

    It’s paced perfectly and full of high points, if you can take the harsher moments
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  8. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    an album full of tuneful tracks, untarnished and complimented by messy noise, little-to-no production and anarchic experiments - surely this is the American lo-fi dream?
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  9. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Indulgent? Sketchy? In places, sure. Happily, though, there is enough lo-fi-pop-gold strewn through the murk to counteract these gripes
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  10. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It feels too one-note, with the band rigidly sticking to its fuzzy pop formula throughout and deviating from it too rarely. That said, they are incredibly proficient at churning out this stuff
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  11. 7.0 |   Blurt

    Strange and beautiful little episodes that are almost, but not quite, pop songs
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  12. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    Equal doses of delicacy and madness
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  13. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    Graces us with moments of understated beauty, and when it's not terrifying us with bad trips, leaves a feeling of contentment and fuzzy warmth with the world
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  14. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only


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