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Music For Dogs

Gardens And Villa

Music For Dogs

Third album of synth pop / indie rock from the Santa Barbara five-piece

ADM rating[?]

6.2

Label
Secretly Canadian
UK Release date
21/08/2015
US Release date
21/08/2015
  1. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    Gardens & Villa have granted themselves a new lease on their artistic life, and have produced one of the year’s best rock albums
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  2. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Music For Dogs kind of ends up resembling a bag of chocolate misshapes: weird-looking and questionable, but still somehow oddly loveable
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  3. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    More in the mode of the band’s self-titled 2011 debut album than 2014’s Dunes
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  4. 7.0 |   All Music

    It's the songs rather than the production that will keep repeat listeners coming back, even if they don't notice at first
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  5. 6.0 |   Under The Radar

    The slinky synthesizers and psychedelic flute flourishes have been toned down in favor of frantic pianos and increasingly spaced-out vocal echoes
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  6. 6.0 |   The Independent

    The third and best album yet from Santa Barbara’s Gardens & Villa
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  7. 5.8 |   Consequence Of Sound

    The band is worried about the status quo being upset, and that applies to how they approach their music, too
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  8. 5.5 |   Earbuddy

    Will it give you something think about? Something feel? Something to inspire you? Something to get you up to dance? Something to soundtrack your day with? Something to remember? Unfortunately not
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  9. 5.0 |   The Music

    This album takes time to blossom, flowering when they leave behind the uneasiness of Maximize Results and find bliss in Paradise
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  10. 5.0 |   The 405

    The potential in lieu of this makes it that much sadder that Gardens & Villa didn't take more time to polish the sounds of last year's Dunes
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  11. 4.7 |   Pitchfork

    The guitars are thin, the drum beats flimsy, the vocals frequently obfuscated by a droning synth or a similar effect
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