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Jackrabbit

San Fermin

Jackrabbit

Second album of post-rock / chamber-pop from the Brooklyn composer and songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone

ADM rating[?]

6.6

Label
Red UK / Downtown
UK Release date
27/04/2015
US Release date
21/04/2015
  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    This LP is deliciously ambitious and stunning in the production and collation of such varied elements and influences
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  2. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    His predilection for marrying sublime pop melodies to bombastic arrangements laced with classical avant-garde flourishes has reached a new level of focus, and, resultantly, potency, on Jackrabbit
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  3. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    It's not as easy to throw on as San Fermin's soaring debut, but it's every bit as strong. For those willing to pay careful attention, it provides a deeper, more rewarding experience
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  4. 8.0 |   All Music

    The performances are strident and lean, suggesting the players are every bit as invested in delivering the best reading of Ludwig-Leone's complex and often gorgeous songs as he was inspired in creating them
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  5. 8.0 |   Earbuddy

    Needs an entire lazy Sunday to fully grasp
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  6. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Offers extensive chamber pop that's both exhilarating and exhausting
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  7. 6.7 |   Consequence Of Sound

    All the pieces are in place; the composer and players are uncannily gifted for a rock band. All that’s missing is the will to transcend expectations
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  8. 6.5 |   Paste Magazine

    Jackrabbit is a powerful statement borrowing a great deal from others’ rhetoric, but we’ve all got to learn somewhere
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  9. 6.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    Jackrabbit feels modern in its tendencies, for ill or otherwise
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  10. 6.0 |   NOW

    Jackrabbit is smart, charming and ambitious. But it would have been a lot more concise without the filler tracks in the middle
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  11. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    On the title track, Kaye sings, "Wanna live like an animal"; you might end up wishing that she'd sing more like one
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  12. 6.0 |   DIY

    Ludwig-Leone essentially tag-teams two of the finest, relatively undiscovered vocal talents throughout the record in Allen Tate and Charlene Kaye
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  13. 5.2 |   Pitchfork

    Rather than building or expanding on his foundation, Ludwig-Leone just piles on and exaggerates: everything San Fermin did, Jackrabbit does twice as loud
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  14. 4.0 |   Uncut

    Two songs and three interludes of grandiose, tuneless narrative better suited to Broadway. Print edition only


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