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Foreign Born

Person To Person

Second album from four piece LA-based folk-rock band

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6.9

Label
Secretly Canadian
UK Release date
22/06/2009
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  1. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    The press release called it the perfect summer BBQ album, but it's really much more than that. It will hopefully be a sleeper hit, ending up on some high profile lists at the end of the year as something that was initially buried under all of Grizzly Bear’s (not undeserved) hype
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  2. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    Foreign Born's use of African music here don't smack of trendhopping or wonky appropriation. Guitarist Lewis Pesacov and drummer Garrett Ray have been studying and nerding out with these sounds in L.A. clubs for years
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  3. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    In spite of their Californian origins, Foreign Born basically sound like a New York indie guitar band, expanding on the basic components: singer Matt Popieluch remarkably similar to Hamilton Leithauser from the Walkmen, and there are hints of Television in Lewis Pesacov’s guitar-work
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  4. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    If California is where you go to get away from it all, how do you escape if you live there? That's what these Southern California beach boys want to know... a charming indie pop ode to the rootlessness of the permanently hot-tubbed
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  5. 7.0 |   NME

    Evocative of Arcade Fire and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, this is a half-melancholic, half-euphoric surge of folkedelia, in which ringing guitars and layered vocals compete with strings, horns and inventive drumming.
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  6. 6.0 |   NME

    At times the production feels flabby, and it’s disappointing to see them in well-trodden ‘thugs and bling’ territory
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