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8.0
58138
8.0 |
The 405
Takes their effervescent and energetic sound to new heights
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8.0
58159
8.0 |
Q
They embrace an array of styles from rock to dance, via the unashamedly esoteric. Print edition only
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7.5
56991
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
With transient arrangements and free voices guiding this album’s sound, earnest listeners can expect to feel at each sonic juncture
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7.0
56990
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
When Ebert’s country calls and life simply doesn’t feel right, he can hop a train, capture lightning in a bottle for at least a second at each show, and return with a record such as this
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7.0
56985
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
The album's adventurous musical scope serves to further expand the mythos behind Ebert's ego-fueled, drug-addled, socio-religious musical experiment
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7.0
57009
7.0 |
Paste Magazine
It’s difficult not to want to join him and his merry pranksters, at least on part of this record
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7.0
58098
7.0 |
Independent on Sunday
A collection of songs every bit as raggle-taggle as the musicians playing them
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7.0
59084
7.0 |
FasterLouder
The push for peace and love is a thematic key to the record, although on songs like ‘Please!’ lyrical depth is forsaken for fairly cliched hippy sentiments
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6.0
59637
6.0 |
PopMatters
An attractive and listenable album that falls short of the stellar heights its namesake band has achieved in the past
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6.0
57472
6.0 |
State
There are great tracks here, brave moments of self-doubt and perfectly pitched pop music, but they are overshadowed by weaker moments
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6.0
58040
6.0 |
DIY
There’s enough to warrant leaving any overly-discerning tendencies at the door and forgive them their obvious flaws
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6.0
58077
6.0 |
The Guardian
The folk-rock musician sounds as if he's dealing with more serious problems, such as whether he's got enough tie-dye, or how to feed his 12-strong Californian travelling mob
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6.0
58089
6.0 |
Evening Standard
The problem with this self-titled third album is that it has no real identity
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6.0
58094
6.0 |
The Independent
The cult-like enthusiasm of The Magnetic Zeros is best experienced live
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6.0
56987
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Good vibes only get you so far
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6.0
56992
6.0 |
All Music
Only a handful of the tracks here have a lot of staying power, and the rest, while always colorful and even enjoyable, are fast to fade
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5.5
56989
5.5 |
Under The Radar
There's enough of the tasteful and orchestrally rich rock they specialize in to keep the motor running and—one hopes—kicking into high gear by the time they share with us again
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5.0
57691
5.0 |
NME
Mawkish and messy
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4.5
57526
4.5 |
Pitchfork
It's not the music that sinks Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, it's those lyrics
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4.2
56986
4.2 |
A.V. Club
Hardly anything registers as more than a blip, with the vast majority of the songs being not so much boring as immediately forgetful
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4.0
56988
4.0 |
Spin
Ebert isn't Lennon, and his Magnetic buds aren't the Flaming Lips or My Morning Jacket, the oft-copied models for this happy sadness
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4.0
58099
4.0 |
The Observer
A bright, colour-saturated record indebted to the loopiest excesses of 60s psychedelia
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4.0
58119
4.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It’s hard to see his output having serious appeal to anybody who wants to be engaged on a level beyond mindless singalong
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4.0
58301
4.0 |
Loud And Quiet
By challenging spirituality it abandons much of the successful pop appeal of their 2009 debut ‘Up From Below’ in favour of an effusive and inauthentic nod to psychedelia
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