Spin (5/01, p.112) - Ranked #39 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...Light and flexible, confrontationally cute and hilarious..."9.536349
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Alternative Press (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The album continues the sultry, sticky pattern she's perfected over the years....A WAYS AWAY casts a spell you won't want to break."Pitchfork (Website) - "A WAYS AWAY, O'Neil's fifth solo album and first on the K imprint, draws together her considerable experience as a producer, singer, and songwriter in a fleetingly beautiful 36 minutes that washes over the listener in an introspective haze."9.529146
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Option (9-10/96, p.96) - "...[Doug Martsch has] got a knack for bouncy guitar pop and rarely forgets to insert a sing-along refrain in the chorus....He likes his guitar solos meaty and imprecise, but handles his songs like delicate babies that he wants to see grow up and love the world..."NME (Magazine) (6/15/96, p.46) - 6 (out of 10) - "...we join chief Spillster Doug Martsch sitting on a bench, dreaming his day away....So not very different from the current Spill formula of melody, melancholia and beards, then..."9.452106
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Entertainment Weekly (p.80) - "[S]he creates an atmosphere of such intimate ease, you feel as if she's singing for you alone." - Grade: B+Uncut (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[M]oments of startling beauty emerge from the fuzz-drenched experiments."Mojo (Publisher) (p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 - "An album of lightness and substance, in perfectly observed amounts."9.452106
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Rolling Stone (p.103) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Dawson's ditties are childlike and catchy..."Entertainment Weekly (p.114) - "Dawson's unaffected earnestness, firm sense of morality, and pretension-cutting playfulness are starting to seem like a miracle." - Grade: A-Magnet (p.92) - "Dawson has delivered one of 2004's more subversive pop delights."9.452106
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CMJ (7/22/02, p.10) - "...Calvin goes as bare bones as possible...those who are fans of his past work will find much to love about these playful musings on love lost..."9.452106
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The band is ultra-competent but loose, turning skeletal tone poems into extended funk workouts without incongruity."9.452106
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CMJ - "[A]coustically strummed children's songs...pleasing the kid in all of us."9.452106
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Spin (p.81) - "Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn expands her sound palette, somehow adapting a Carnival parade for the otherwise restrained 'Country of the Future.'"Alternative Press (p.135) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Her voice, which has grown more assured in each of her four prior solo discs, is ready to graduate to the mainstream having grown from a girly waifishness to a smoky croon."Pitchfork (Website) - "[I]t encompasses a range of ideas on a grand scale, as the listener wades through her candid musings on unrealized love, death, the nature of time, emotional suffering, and the shedding material wants."9.452106
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Spin (p.88) - "Echo and reverb subdue layers of Zwart's unhinged guitars and keyboards as he recounts road trips down U.S. 101."Pitchfork (Website) - "[T]he slowly cascading guitar-led melodies can be imbued with the kind of easygoing beauty that brings to mind slow Super 8 footage of cars rolling by, parks full of trees, sky full of sun, that sort of thing."9.452106
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Spin (p.78) - "When the band's clattering, it's great fun..."CMJ - "[The] rhythm section wanders seamlessly through R&B bass lines, blues guitar riffs, filthy organ chords and swinging, simplistic percussion."9.452106
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Magnet (6-7/03, p.84) - "...Think of 2 as the even-tempered cousin to Tuscadero's THE PINK ALBUM, with that band's sexy punk sneer subbed out for All Girl Summer Fun Band's coquettish smirk and soft-edged indie pop....it's contagious."CMJ (04/21/03, p.9) - "...A sweet pop blast of true girl power--music that is delightfully free of pretension and bad attitude..."Mojo (Publisher) (4/03, p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A substantial progression from AGSFB's first outing; the playing's more forceful, the harmonies more confident, the lyrics more sophisticated. There's giddy fun as well..."9.452106
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Uncut (p.94) - 3 stars out of 5 -- '[With] neat, breathy song-sketches, intimate in delivery but heavy in emotion."9.452106
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Magnet (12-1/02, pp.96-7) - "...Joyfully anarchic, unpredictable...a big beautiful mess. This is lo-fi experimentalism that takes real chances....one of 2001's best..."Mojo (Publisher) (2/02, p.103) - "...Rough-cut gems...teh warmest, foggiest indie-folk this side of the Elephant 6 posse..."Pitchfork (Website) - "Vocal harmonies blur, disappear, return as ragged organs. Creaky percussion sounds like it might give way at any moment, and sometimes does. Staticky thumps that could level forests give way to calm acoustic expanses." -- Rating: 9.39.452106
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The Wire (p.66) - "Their boiling cauldron of punky jazz funk has everything from James Chance and Devo to early Talking Heads simmering in the mix."9.452106
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CMJ (1/27/03, p.7) - "...Entrancing....Impressive concept work..."9.452106
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Entertainment Weekly (10/25/96, p.116) - "...Kula Shaker don't merely take you back 20 years on this confident debut, they rejuvenate that period by mixing sitar and Sanskrit chants with wa-wa guitar Hammond organ. The blissed-out effect is somewhere between post-India George Harrison and early Stone Roses." - Rating: B+Q (10/96, p.165) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...they can go from delicacy to harder bluesy riffs and mix harmonies with funky rhythmic undertows to produce a gloriously full sound. They have discipline, a surefooted sense of pop melody, and they do it all with a sense of positivity..."Alternative Press (1/97, p.73) - 5 (out of 5) - "...Tight song structures embrace Kula Shaker's freakform excursions, and though they're into jam, they use butter, as well, which means that self-indulgence is kept to a minimum..."NME (Magazine) (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #14 in NME's 1996 critic's poll.NME (Magazine) (9/14/96, p.50) - 9 (out of 10) - "...K is enormous; generating mighty, vertical grooves of pan-dimensional power pop which will surely have The Stone Roses gnawing at their innards....it's The Verve gone ethno-berserk, as huge as the horizon itself....astonishingly confident, musicianly gifted, gloriously hedonistic..."8.438637
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