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Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.108) - Ranked #38 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records".Rolling Stone (9/20/70, p.37) - "...anarchic in conception but somehow holding onto form and rhythm in execution...OAR presents some of the most comfortable music I've ever heard..."Rolling Stone (8/5/99, p.66) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...Genius and madness coexist brilliantly on OAR's deceptively still waters. This sonically faithful and lovingly documented reissue will only further its legend."Spin (10/91) - Highly Recommended - "...psychedelic blues...the sound on this reissue is magnificent...OAR has long been one of America's truly exceptional musical experiences..."Magnet (p.114) - "The album's just-left-of-normal folk/country compositions and tragicomic ruminations demonstrate how deeply the damage had already been done..."The Wire (9/99, p.56) - "...As a devolution of pop forms into haunted madness....it's unique...OAR is the sound of a dark night of the soul, but its stumbling one-man-band overdubs and half formed tunes make it very hard to listen to....The good news is that this latest reissue restores the foggy original mix...and a few of the songs are really lovely..."Dirty Linen (2-3/00, p.82) - "...an unusual album...[It] does as much to capture the sound and soul of the raggedy, revolutionary 60s as much as any other recording of its time....an unfinished work from an unfinished life."Mojo (Publisher) (p.72) - "[The album] wrests baroque plaintiveness from Spence's darkest recesses."Mojo (Publisher) (3/01/04, p.52) - Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "This proto lo-fi document was uncomfortably at odds with everything else at the time..."Mojo (Publisher) (9/99, p.118) - "...Oscillating between biblical apocalypse, looney tunes humour, therapeutic release, and 'sincere belief'...OAR is nothing less than a spiritual and psychic journey....[It] remains as fresh as the moment when it was recorded..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.50) - Ranked #29 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "Skip drifts through psych, blues and folk, like some forlorn hobo phantom, forging a lost and desolate beauty..."14.8365
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Uncut (p.93) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Through the simplicity of their languid melodies, Beach House access a portal into pop's truly uncanny nature."Uncut (p.89) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[There is] a rich seam of spooked cinematic ambience running through the duo's retro-pop....There are exquisite moments here that recall Mazzy Star, Nico-era Velvets and even Radiohead."3.834254
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Dirty Linen (Apr/May 93, p.78) - "...OPEN HOUSE is not exactly what I expected from Irish filler extraordinaire Kevin Burke, but aren't unexpected pleasures some of the most delightful ones?...an enjoyable set that will bring a smile to your face--and your ears--anytime..."3.799583
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Rolling Stone (11/26/70, p.38) - "...KILN HOUSE...is a venture that would make [Buddy] Holly and [Gene] Vincent unabashedly proud as godparents to the album..."Q (7/93, p.106) - 2 Stars - Average - "...an odd mixture, alternating between Spencer's rock'n'roll and country pastiches (plus one charmingly gentle love song) and Kirwan's exploratory blues-derived material, with its pleasing discipline and incisive guitar work..."3.777227
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Uncut (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The production is more sophisticated, the arrangements more intricate, the melodies and harmonies more complex..."Magnet (p.93) - "[A] thing of rough-edged beauty.....HOUSE's structures are pretty loose, like meandering dirt paths that sometimes disappear under your feet but always reappear a few yards down the way."CMJ (p.38) - "Grizzly Bear's gift for swathing gorgeous melodies in layers of reverb and texture, well explored on their debut full-length, HORN OF PLENTY, is fully realized on their sophomore album."3.771498
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Entertainment Weekly (6/8/01, p.77) - "...The troubadour goes digital, looping in Middle Eastern chants, bongo beats, electronic beeps, and DJ Logic's scratches..." - Rating: BCMJ (7/2/01, p.24) - "...His most complete, fullest-sounding work....It has moments of real beauty, and they are all accessible..."3.765383
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The Wire (p.60) - "[They transform] a track like 'Daydream' into a near ecclesiastical cloud of shimmering organs."Uncut (magazine) (p.94) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[L]ush pads of drone-tone fill the air like steam and sweat. It's a solid piece of work..."3.762983
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Uncut (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's a magical mess that sounds trebly and harsh, a quality to which you quickly become accustomed: like an AM radio tuned to a station dedicated to solid gold classics from a parallel universe."The Wire (p.43) - "Pink's mysterious methods produce wholly unique creations....Warped pop for people who prefer their expectations to be dodged."Mojo (Publisher) (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "This evokes early Pale Saints and Love with its effortlessly sunny melodies, but the songs' structures cut and shift alarmingly."3.760583
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Uncut (p.106) - "[H]ighly capable....With a tough line in honky tonk and beer-stained country."3.758183
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Rolling Stone - Ranked #71 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Albums Of The 80s" survey.CMJ (2/14/00, p.22) - "...guitars jangle and warble and scrape around while songwriter Neil Finn's voice swung from a serenade to a kind of sculpted holler....each song [providing] a lyrical shock tied to a perfect hook..."3.748583
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Alternative Press (p.148) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[W]hat the Horrors do, they do well, ravaging your eardrums with heavily distorted punk guitars, shot-fire drums and spooky, horror film soundtrack organs..."CMJ (p.44) - "[G]oth-progressing trash rock, a la Cramps/Birthday Party/Hunches....[It] seems currently unique."3.748583
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