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In Ghostlike Fading

My Best Fiend

In Ghostlike Fading

Emotional psych-tinged indie rock on the debut from the Brooklyn band

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5.8

Label
Warp
UK Release date
20/02/2012
US Release date
21/02/2012
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  1. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    An album of reverent fantasies and atmospheric ballads, their dreamlike world is one you’ll be reluctant to wake from
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  2. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    The ethereal keyboard lines and the chemistry between the two guitars are able to trap a listener within the album right from the start, and it rarely lets you stray too far from the music
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  3. 6.2 |   Pitchfork

    For all of its immediate pleasure, In Ghostlike Fading feels slightly vacant, valuing tribute and stylization above personal expression
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  4. 6.0 |   NME

    They’re hardly bringing in a new era, but there’s definite promise here
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  5. 5.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Takes too much effort to warm to, or perhaps it’s just not that warming
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  6. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    At the height of its powers, In Ghostlike Fading often succeeds in delivering the raw intensity and spiritual empowerment that we’ve come to expect from this sort of music - but that’s to hit the problem squarely on the head: we’ve come to expect it
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