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8.3
31298
8.3 |
A.V. Club
Bears traces of Modest Mouse, Superchunk, Cap’n Jazz, Slint, and others, but the songs exude a craftsmanship that simple re-appropriation couldn’t achieve
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8.0
31420
8.0 |
No Ripcord
Music has the right to sound this discombobulated when its composers know how to weave you into their web of splendor
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8.0
31466
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
One of the year’s most surprisingly transcendental sophomore albums
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8.0
31469
8.0 |
Beats Per Minute
This is a really banging collection by a poet honing his craft, still experimenting and learning and having fun
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8.0
31710
8.0 |
Pitchfork
Puts more confidence in the listener's attention span than pretty much anything else I've heard this year
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8.0
31735
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
While there are elements of influences and inspiration threaded throughout Lenses Alien, the album remains an inventive, explosive work that is entirely of these unsettled time
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8.0
31777
8.0 |
Pitchfork
Thick with overlapping images, memories, stray thoughts, and second guessing
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8.0
30621
8.0 |
The Skinny
Plenty of bands are currently excavating the late 80s/early 90s golden age of experimental indie, but it's rarely done with this level of confidence and imagination
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8.0
30623
8.0 |
Spin
Will speak to fans of Built to Spill's squall, Superchunk's chug, and Modest Mouse's string-bending strangeness
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8.0
30795
8.0 |
The Guardian
Surprises lie in the way a song will shift direction and dynamic, a melody will twist away from the vocal line, a guitar will apparently detune mid-note
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8.0
30961
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
With their nerve held, this is Cymbals Eat Guitars at an impressively high creative watermark still early in their career
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8.0
31269
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
It's one thing to deliver clever, offbeat lyrics, but Cymbals Eat Guitars balances out these abstract vocal overtones with deftly handled instrumentation, bringing to mind the heydays of Built to Spill, Pavement, and Superchunk
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8.0
31881
8.0 |
The Fly
These songs aren’t simple hummable pop ditties – they splinter off in deceptively-complex directions, coalescing as beautifully powerful patterns that you’d be a goddamn fool to resist
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8.0
32061
8.0 |
Under The Radar
This is the sound of four individuals finding their footing as a band and songwriters
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7.5
31077
7.5 |
Prefix
This sound doesn't fit such easy spaces, which is what makes it so damn good
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7.2
32161
7.2 |
Paste Magazine
Where their effects could once be neatly filed under “ambient,” the result now is more frantic—even, you could say, angrier—on much of the album
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7.0
32119
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
There are countless artists mining those halcyon days of the early- to mid-90s, but these guys are among the few who are really seem to refashion those base elements into something that feels both fresh and beguiling
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7.0
30947
7.0 |
God Is In The TV
An immensely rewarding follow up from a band who have shown that they aren’t afraid to push themselves
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7.0
30627
7.0 |
NME
They mainly hit a balance between shifting symphonies, subtle keys and pyroclastic guitar
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7.0
31779
7.0 |
PopMatters
Cymbals Eat Guitars sound free from the influence-peddling of their debut, well on their way to creating their own niche
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6.0
31473
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Continues the band’s mission to bring the quiet/loud/quiet/loud aesthetic to the masses
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6.0
30889
6.0 |
Q
A rugged, roaring listen. Print edition only
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6.0
32649
6.0 |
Uncut
Stoned, paranoid, or both, best keep an eye on them. Print edition only
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5.5
31846
5.5 |
Bowlegs
If there was more clarity in the vocals so you could engage in the stories, or if the music was more coherent and had more character, this would be an interesting album
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