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9.0
66990
9.0 |
Exclaim
It's the little idiosyncrasies that make their expansive music so breathtaking
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9.0
67197
9.0 |
Earbuddy
Wrings out every drop of the best shoegaze and dream pop of the last twenty or so years and has distilled it into their tightest and most seamless album yet
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9.0
67477
9.0 |
Beardfood
Future classic right here, no doubt
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8.5
66993
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A Sunny Day have just about mastered the pleasure principle of a certain kind of agreeably arty pop music
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8.5
67008
8.5 |
Pitchfork
Finds the band tightening up their sound just enough, bringing the interlocking vocals of their two singers, Jen Goma and Annie Fredrickson, to the forefront of the mix
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8.0
67022
8.0 |
Art Rocker
An intelligent take on a new dimension to pop rock
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8.0
67023
8.0 |
All Music
Just as they did on their best album, Ashes Grammar, the band takes risks and makes leaps, and the results on Sea When Absent prove that they are one of the best, most interesting under-the-radar bands of their era
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8.0
66991
8.0 |
The List
Their moments of brilliance are no longer as rare as an actual sunny day in Glasgow
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8.0
67952
8.0 |
Under The Radar
While reverb and fuzzy effects take a back seat this time around, it doesn't mean the band has eschewed the neo-psychedelica or the shoegaze complexities that make their music so distinctive
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8.0
68026
8.0 |
DIY
As the record meanders without fault through its mammoth world of freakishness and frenzy, it’s hard not to find yourself tapping or nodding along to every eccentric earworm that breaks through from under the dark, dystopian surface
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8.0
68031
8.0 |
The Guardian
Vocalists Jen Goma and Annie Fredrickson sound like lost sisters of Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser, as voice and sound are burnished to a heavenly haze
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8.0
68065
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Whilst so many hazy albums of this kind struggle to engage on a level beyond superficiality, Sea When Absent - if you’re willing to genuinely invest in it - throws up a plethora of fresh subtleties with every listen
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8.0
68236
8.0 |
Crack
Be warned, while they sound sugary on the surface, ASDIG are still a complex and challenging listen. They’re also an incredibly rewarding one
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8.0
68688
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Although it may be a commercial failure like their previous work A Sunny Day In Glasgow’s fourth album is a success by any other measure
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8.0
67337
8.0 |
No Ripcord
A luscious smorgasbord of fleshed out ideas and surprises that all try to innovate the conventions of shoegaze
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7.5
67189
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Sea When Absent is a little less weird than ASDIG’s other efforts, but also riskier. The arrangements are cleaner and brighter, oozing with odd, counterintuitive hooks
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7.0
66992
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
A compelling, if slightly discombobulated, rock pastiche
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7.0
67352
7.0 |
PopMatters
Even with the louder, harsher mix, ASDIG retain much of their dream-pop core, making for a rewarding listening experience
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6.7
67206
6.7 |
Consequence Of Sound
Full of bliss, even if it’s too often sabotaged by an excess of ideas scattered on the page without room to breathe
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