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Family Crimes

The Skygreen Leopards

Family Crimes

Latest album of sunshine indie pop from duo Donovan Quinn and Glenn Donaldson, recorded on tape without digital alterations

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6.3

Label
Woodsist
UK Release date
08/07/2014
US Release date
08/07/2014
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  1. 7.3 |   Paste Magazine

    If Skygreen Leopards still sounds like its surrounding environs—and it does, kinda—the group works to summon a Bay from times past, rather than portraying its current digitized state
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  2. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    Quinn and Donaldson may be getting somewhat longer in the tooth, but they’re sounding younger. And whatever darkness lurks within Family Crimes is swallowed back down with a wise, dreamy smile
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  3. 7.0 |   All Music

    Family Crimes sees Skygreen Leopards light years away from the experimental, communal folk sounds that they were drawn to in their earliest days, but still retains the same distant dreaminess
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  4. 6.1 |   Earbuddy

    Quinn and Donaldson sound like they’re having a good time — so much so that they sound like they’re running out of air while singing or attempting a dual Bob Dylan impression
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  5. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    It’s an album so consistent that it sometimes threatens to blend parts together
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  6. 5.8 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Reining in their acid-fried folk leanings provided an intriguing advancement to the Skygreen Leopards sound, blending those more adventurous choices with this strengthened, approachable melodic core
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