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Pitchfork
For Grizzly Bear fans and Department of Eagles devotees alike, Archives 2003-2006 is a document rich with revelatory moments and educatory touchstones - but as an album, it functions even better
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Clash
A magical insight into the development of Rossen’s creative genius
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Rave Magazine
The chilly folk jaunt of While We’re Young shows they could write great tunes early on, as well as create fascinating sound textures
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The Quietus
It has an unlikely sense of cohesion that ensures that Archive 2003-2006 far transcends its role as a document of a work in process
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Beats Per Minute
The first thing that comes through in this Spartan approach is how sharp Rossen’s guitar sounds, and how sensitive his voice is next to it,
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The Fly
‘Archive...’ is a stroke of staggering near perfection
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The Irish Times
Their loose-limbed, symphonic pop gets under the skin, and this mood-shifting miscellany has deservedly been dusted off
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NME
What's surprising is how the band that spawned Grizzly Bear had found their sound so early, back in college dorms. Print edition only
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Subba Cultcha
Department of Eagles deserve your attention, they deserve to soar, like their namesakes high and pure
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The Line Of Best Fit
None of these songs are outright stunners, but they’re compelling simply because of the glimpse they provide into the primitive songwriting methods of two musicians who were both on the cusp of breaking through to prominence
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Bowlegs
Within these sketches and tracks is an experience and journal Rossen and Nicolaus have already lived, and now, thankfully, we can too
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State
It’s never without it’s charms, and suffices as more than just Grizzly Bear’s less prosaic, more prozacic, darkly coutured cousin
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musicOMH
Archives will not compensate for the lack of new Department Of Eagles material...Yet it does have merit as a fascinating document of a band veering out of its comfort zone, starting to make what had previously been the music of their dreams
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Prefix
Archive serves as a neat window into the past, right at the moment that Rossen’s compositional quirks began to form
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Independent on Sunday
It has its moments, and in the airy CSN&Y harmonies, one can hear harbingers of Rossen's other band, Grizzly Bear
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Drowned In Sound
Hidden amongst the eclectic moments of inspiration and odd ideas that didn’t quite work out is ‘Golden Apple’, the penultimate track here, and the one moment when the band really hit on something special
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Uncut
The tracks of Archive 2003-2006 combine a lean feel and try-anything ambition that's well worthy of investigation
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BBC
If you only buy one Department of Eagles album this week, make it In Ear Park. And if you’ve not got a Grizzly Bear LP to call your own yet, collect those before working your way back to the rather slighter selections penned by Rossen and Nicolaus
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