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Thumbtacks And Glue

Woodpigeon

Thumbtacks And Glue

The Canadian indie folk/pop band led by Mark Andrew Hamilton with album No.6

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6.3

Label
Fierce Panda
UK Release date
25/02/2013
US Release date
26/02/2013
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  1. 8.5 |   BBC

    Just because is not music that shouts about itself, that dazzles with pyrotechnics or showboating guitar solos, its profundity and emotional heft is nevertheless, and perhaps even all the more, striking
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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    A sort of ruggedly ornate set of basement chamber pop songs that should please fans of early Sufjan Stevens
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  3. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Undulating orchestration, the lift and swell, matches Mark Andrew Hamilton’s eccentric lyrical slant and seraphic singing to produce immaculate and endearing music
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  4. 8.0 |   Blurt

    Hamilton writes very nice folk rock songs, the way a 1,000 song writers do, but he, unlike most of his completion, he also wires them with dynamite and blows them sky high
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  5. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Sumptuous, harmony-heavy orchestral pop. Print edition only

  6. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Folky, fragile songs. Print edition only

  7. 6.0 |   Q

    Grandiose pop that often beats Sufjan Stevens at his own "maximilist" game. Print edition only

  8. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    There are several moments where the complexity of the ideas overreaches the Woodpigeon collective's ability to record them
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  9. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    Thumbtacks And Glue does not succeed in the way that it will, in the end, need to – by being memorable
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  10. 4.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Woodpigeon have the building blocks to break into indie’s big leagues, but after spending some time with Thumbtacks + Glue, it’s clear they still have a ways to go
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  11. 4.0 |   PopMatters

    A sadly laborious and pedestrian listen, bereft of the wonder in the best of Hamilton’s previous work
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