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Sleep Mountain

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Sleep Mountain

Second album from Danish indie rock five-piece often compared to Polyphonic Spree or Arcade Fire

ADM rating[?]

5.8

Label
Bella Union
UK Release date
01/03/2010
  1. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    ...fans still mourning the death of Grandaddy. All of you are directed immediately towards Sleep Mountain
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  2. 8.0 |   NME

    Centre it all around a heartbreaking cover of Neil Young’s ‘Philadelphia’ and the result is nothing short of stunning
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  3. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    It may not be breaking any new ground, but there are enough great songs to be found here that the need to be sonic adventurers is rendered insignificant
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  4. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  5. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Passionate, urgent, full of music that swoops with the geometric elegance of flocking birds, but shows scant evidence of original thinking
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  6. 6.0 |   The Fly

    At a time when Win Butler’s rabble aren’t the indie poster-boy darlings of old, you’ve got to feel this is an opportunity wasted
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  7. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    It's full of anthemic grace, but over 12 tracks, the whiff of déjà vu proves suffocating
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  8. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  9. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  10. 6.0 |   State

    Essential? No. Satisfying? Definitely
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  11. 6.0 |   Eye Weekly

    Sleep Mountain trades in the first album’s starry-eyed wonderment and excitable four-man-harmony outbursts for a more ornate but portentous delivery
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  12. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Sleep Mountain lacks both the urgency and unhinged fervour of Arcade Fire and the inventive mischief of the Flaming Lips
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  13. 4.4 |   Pitchfork

    Those who brave the record's turgid front end will be treated to Sleep Mountain's more interesting portion
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  14. 2.0 |   No Ripcord

    Its two main crimes are that it’s too safe with its simple chord patterns and unimaginative riffs, and that it’s too in thrall to the records that have inspired it
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