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9.0
43929
9.0 |
musicOMH
In a time when there is much hand wringing about the future of guitar music amid fears of being swamped with nostalgic revivalism and a chronic lack of ideas, a record like Oshin is one to be cherished
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9.0
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9.0 |
NME
Songs that take their own precious time to get where they’re going, and do so with the precision of a military operation. Drums and guitars smothered with reverb, vocals distorted to mesmerise and hypnotise
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8.5
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8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It’s rare for a band to hit upon something this special so early on in their career and then be able to hone that initial energy and excitement into a debut as accomplished as this
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8.3
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8.3 |
Pitchfork
Oshin isn't just a gorgeous and unusually melodic dream-pop record; it's an interesting experiment in whether a band based on voice/guitar/bass/drums can rely on the guitar to carry the song's meaning
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8.3
43390
8.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
An album of meticulously crafted melodies that ebb and flow with purpose, oscillating seamlessly between shimmering pop, pounding new-wave, and dream-inducing shoegaze
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8.3
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8.3 |
A.V. Club
Oshin emphasizes a charmingly low-budget kind of grandeur, like Ride’s Nowhere reconstructed via laptop
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8.1
43396
8.1 |
Beats Per Minute
Diiv is forging a distinct voice here among a crowd of familiar faces
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8.0
43394
8.0 |
Under The Radar
Smith hasn't found what he's looking for throughout this epic 13-song journey. Yet he's torn his guts out and seemingly had the time of his life while fitfully trying
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8.0
43395
8.0 |
Bowlegs
A record you can get lost in, with songs that float on the periphery rather than existing in plain grey reality
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8.0
44135
8.0 |
Uncut
Effervescent jangle-peppers make their debut. Print edition only
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8.0
44227
8.0 |
Clash
It’s an album in the true sense, each song a building block on an overall journey
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8.0
43642
8.0 |
Blurt
Dive into the glistening turbulence of this big, beautiful Oshin
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8.0
43843
8.0 |
The Fly
DIIV exist in the hazy, blissful end of the shoegaze spectrum, where every day is a stoned slice of summer
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8.0
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8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
All of the songs on Oshin are good. A lot of them are really good. So good are these songs that you don’t realize they’re all sort of the same until you’ve gone through, like, seven of them, and even then it’s difficult to fault DIIV for sticking to one sound since they do it so well
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8.0
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8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
If there’s one thing that Smith has nailed, it’s the knowledge that less is more; there are few opportunities to over-indulge in the songs on Oshin. You can wallow in them, briefly, but they don’t stay with you. They have some other place to be
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7.0
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7.0 |
All Music
Oshin is a pleasant listen, especially for anyone partial to Beach Fossils or the Captured Tracks sound in general
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7.0
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7.0 |
Spin
Shoegaze-y NYC tyros swoon sweetly, shine brightest when the hazy guitars and cloudy vocals are offset with stiff motorik
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
It's not landfill indie so much as cloud-formation indie: a sequence of beautiful shapes, billowing magnificently, only to blow away on the breeze
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6.0
43643
6.0 |
The Observer
What rescues Oshin from being a set of aqueous dream-pop search engine tags is the band's latent Krautrock bent
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6.0
43644
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Oshin’s peaks and troughs are conducive to slightly different kinds of meditation
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4.0
43705
4.0 |
No Ripcord
Oshin is very nice. It’s great at being nice. And because it’s 2012 and because it’s tediously unassuming, people will listen to it in the background once or twice while skimreading blogs and forget about it within a year
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