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Rolling Stone (p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE HUNTER demonstrates how contemporary radio rock can still be made with imagination, precision and a majestic sense of force."Rolling Stone (p.72) - Ranked #38 in Rolling Stone's '50 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "[A] killer rock-radio record."Spin (p.73) - "Songs like 'Curl of the Burl,' the galloping 'Specterlight,' and the kinetic, catchy 'Blasteroid' keep the riffs simple without lapsing into banality."Entertainment Weekly (p.74) - "[The] hybrids mutate awesomely, creating one burly, beastly adrenaline spike." -- Grade: A-Alternative Press (p.125) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Execution matches ambition in the beautiful 'Creature Lives,' which adds a new dimension to the band's classic rock side..."0.6743422
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Rolling Stone (p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE HUNTER demonstrates how contemporary radio rock can still be made with imagination, precision and a majestic sense of force."Rolling Stone (p.72) - Ranked #38 in Rolling Stone's '50 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "[A] killer rock-radio record."Spin (p.73) - "Songs like 'Curl of the Burl,' the galloping 'Specterlight,' and the kinetic, catchy 'Blasteroid' keep the riffs simple without lapsing into banality."Entertainment Weekly (p.74) - "[The] hybrids mutate awesomely, creating one burly, beastly adrenaline spike." -- Grade: A-Alternative Press (p.125) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Execution matches ambition in the beautiful 'Creature Lives,' which adds a new dimension to the band's classic rock side..."0.6743422
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Rolling Stone (p.90) - "[A] dead-ahead motion and mounting detail, peaking with epic stasis in the cover of Chatham's 'Guitar Trio'."Uncut (p.80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[S]urprisingly melodic and accessible, with Kane playing all the instruments on a bunch of intensely propulsive motorik blues tracks."The Wire (p.72) - "[A] clutch of longform blues instrumentals that work seemingly leaden mechanical rhythms and non-fluid structures into hypnotic cogs in a massively subtle psychedelic system."0.6319273
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Q (1/91) - 3 Stars - Good - "..Guaranteed to make your toes curl.."0.5911713
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Q (3/02, pp.122-3) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Idol continues to curl his lip expertly and delivers a performance rich in swagger..."0.472937
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JazzTimes (p.58) - "All sorts of stories are told through the music on this unusual retrospective....With its richly developed themes and wide stylistic reach, this is an album to curl up with."0.472937
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"...With a quiet that's meticulously transformed into moodiness and then fear-filled tension, the director Takashi Miike eases us in slowly....AUDITION doesn't let you down..." New York Times "...Miike has a Bunuelian talent for turning our preconceptions on their heads as a scare tactic..." Box Office "...Awful good....This tough, witty grotesquerie aims to shock with a torture sequence so intense it'll make your curls curl..." Entertainment Weekly0.4180212
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"...With a quiet that's meticulously transformed into moodiness and then fear-filled tension, the director Takashi Miike eases us in slowly....AUDITION doesn't let you down..." New York Times "...Miike has a Bunuelian talent for turning our preconceptions on their heads as a scare tactic..." Box Office "...Awful good....This tough, witty grotesquerie aims to shock with a torture sequence so intense it'll make your curls curl..." Entertainment Weekly0.4180212
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"...Seaton's paean to seasonal goodwill remains profoundly watchable..." Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here really is no better flick to curl up with over the festive season."Total Film0.4138199
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"...Seaton's paean to seasonal goodwill remains profoundly watchable..." Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here really is no better flick to curl up with over the festive season."Total Film0.4138199
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"...Seaton's paean to seasonal goodwill remains profoundly watchable..." Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here really is no better flick to curl up with over the festive season."Total Film0.4138199
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"...Seaton's paean to seasonal goodwill remains profoundly watchable..." Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here really is no better flick to curl up with over the festive season."Total Film0.4138199
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"...Seaton's paean to seasonal goodwill remains profoundly watchable..." Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here really is no better flick to curl up with over the festive season."Total Film0.4138199
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Rolling Stone (p.105) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] gorgeous songs that range from Buddy Holly-style rock to prom balladry to the strummy epic 'Hellhole Ratrace.'"Spin (p.33) - Ranked #5 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2009" -- "[A] dazzling debut that hazily evokes 1959 without the greaser-kitsch baggage."Entertainment Weekly (p.104) - Included in Entertainment Weekly's 'The Best Albums of 2009' -- "ALBUM is a shambolic tribute to the enduring spark of basement-bred rock & roll..."CMJ - "[W]hile 'Goddamn''s hedonistic verses carry trace inflections of the Thin White Duke, 'Hellhole Rat Race' bears a far more somber Costello-esque vocal."Billboard (p.36) - "[T]he duo manages to make sweet pop music devoid of cynicism."Q (Magazine) (p.111) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The abiding mood is of boy-next-door heartache, while the songwriting draws heavily on bigwigs such as Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson..."Clash (magazine) - "[T]heir music is jam-packed full of laid back melodies and psychedelic wanderings under pinned with classic hooks."Uncut (magazine) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "ALBUM lurches bizarrely from the heart-rending to the goofy to the simply spaced-out, but what it lacks in polish it makes up for with buckets of charm."0.3686242
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Q (10/96, p.192) - 3 Stars - Good - "No Martha, Bill Haley didn't launch rock'n'roll, there were lots of others involved well before ol' kiss-curl came on the scene....down in Louisiana, piano-playing Fats Domino was one of them..."0.3547028
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Spin (1/99, p.117) - "...[full of] slightly art-happy compositions..."CMJ (11/23/99, p.30) - "....Baby Ray proves that there's some creative life remaining in guitar pop....reflects some of the Boston indie pop scene from which it emerged, as well as some classic rock influences, plus the smartly crafted pop of XTC."0.3159636
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Rolling Stone (p.105) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] gorgeous songs that range from Buddy Holly-style rock to prom balladry to the strummy epic 'Hellhole Ratrace.'"Spin (p.33) - Ranked #5 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2009" -- "[A] dazzling debut that hazily evokes 1959 without the greaser-kitsch baggage."Entertainment Weekly (p.104) - Included in Entertainment Weekly's 'The Best Albums of 2009' -- "ALBUM is a shambolic tribute to the enduring spark of basement-bred rock & roll..."CMJ - "[W]hile 'Goddamn''s hedonistic verses carry trace inflections of the Thin White Duke, 'Hellhole Rat Race' bears a far more somber Costello-esque vocal."Billboard (p.36) - "[T]he duo manages to make sweet pop music devoid of cynicism."Q (Magazine) (p.111) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The abiding mood is of boy-next-door heartache, while the songwriting draws heavily on bigwigs such as Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson..."Clash (magazine) - "[T]heir music is jam-packed full of laid back melodies and psychedelic wanderings under pinned with classic hooks."Uncut (magazine) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "ALBUM lurches bizarrely from the heart-rending to the goofy to the simply spaced-out, but what it lacks in polish it makes up for with buckets of charm."0.3159636
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Rolling Stone (p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE HUNTER demonstrates how contemporary radio rock can still be made with imagination, precision and a majestic sense of force."Entertainment Weekly (p.74) - "[The] hybrids mutate awesomely, creating one burly, beastly adrenaline spike." -- Grade: A-0.3159636
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Rolling Stone (p.130) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[R]ambling acoustic songs, unwieldy noise experiments and homespun rock, with warbled beauty and choruses that tumble out and curl up on your lap."Entertainment Weekly (p.73) - "These B sides and studio ephemera, by turns folksy and noisy, demonstrate his appeal." -- Grade: B+Q (p.147) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Oberst unveils a set of modestly sparkling gems..."0.2955856
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Q (Magazine) (p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]is version of 'Hey Joe' curls around your ears like smoke before you notice what it is."Mojo (Publisher) (p.82) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Sufjan Stevens's delicate, elliptical waltz 'Holland' is examined with affecting tenderness and playful wonder."0.2955856
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Rolling Stone (p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE HUNTER demonstrates how contemporary radio rock can still be made with imagination, precision and a majestic sense of force."Entertainment Weekly (p.74) - "[The] hybrids mutate awesomely, creating one burly, beastly adrenaline spike." -- Grade: A-0.263303
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Rolling Stone (p.134) - "[H]ere they build fresh, bracing psychedelia from the paisley-tremolo guitars of the '65 Charlatans and the fine whine and tight-curl licks of the '68-'69 Byrds."Uncut (p.121) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he lissom guitars of brothers Dallas and Travis Good still allow for thrilling detours, from hot-rod romps to modern takes on Mary Robbins' sagebrush ballads."Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir studio albums have been moving away from virtuoso instrumentals towards vocal songs, of which this album has some excellent examples."0.2364685
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.92) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Still heeding to the twee manifesto, their destabilising saccharine and arsenic pop sounds every bit as good as indie did back in 1986."Pitchfork (Website) - "There is no audible sign that this album didn't come out in 1992 -- in its comfortable old fuzz-guitar tone, in its lyrical concerns, in the enduringly liquid curls of Fletcher's voice. They're doing what they love best, and the current American indie scene is finally catching up..."0.2364685
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Rolling Stone (p.134) - "[H]ere they build fresh, bracing psychedelia from the paisley-tremolo guitars of the '65 Charlatans and the fine whine and tight-curl licks of the '68-'69 Byrds."Uncut (p.121) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he lissom guitars of brothers Dallas and Travis Good still allow for thrilling detours, from hot-rod romps to modern takes on Mary Robbins' sagebrush ballads."Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir studio albums have been moving away from virtuoso instrumentals towards vocal songs, of which this album has some excellent examples."0.2364685
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Spin (p.97) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The guitarist's sixth album is his most accessible yet, crammed with melodic Brit punk played at maximum speed."Q (p.118) - Ranked #51 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006."Alternative Press (p.200) - "'You Always Let Me Down' is capable of making all the garage-rock singles in indie stores curl up and wilt."Magnet (p.95) - "[H]is heartsick melancholy comes through perfectly on 'Tell It Like It Is'..."CMJ (p.37) - "Coxon is more than capable of crafting solid pop, and his guitar work is still impressive."0.2364685
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Rolling Stone (p.74) - 3 1/2 stars out of 5 - "Madlib's tracks are fuzzy and crackling with dust....As an MC, Doom is a perfect complement. His flow is a particularly elegant slur, with syllables speading over a beat, not crisply adhering to it."Rolling Stone (p.146) - Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "[T]wo of the funniest mouths in underground hip-hop..."Spin (p.66) - Ranked #17 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of the Year" - "Madlib's production - thick, woozy slabs of beatnik bass - keeps things hotter than an underground volcano lair."Entertainment Weekly (3/19/04, p.66) - "Madlib and Doom always tuck surprises into the corners." - Grade: BQ (p.118) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Madlib is the most innovative beatsman since Prince Paul and has created an oddball, cartoon-heavy backdrop for Doom's mellifluous wordplay."CMJ (3/22/04, p.5) - "The entire thing has a muffled vibe somewhere between drunken basement four-tracker experiments, meticulous science experiment and apocalypse...no matter what, these mad scientists are up to no good, and that's damn good."Mojo (Publisher) (p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 - "The wily creativity on display here is astonishing....A symphony of such densely constructed chaos, MADVILLAINY's very opacity is part of its brilliance."0.2106424
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Dirty Linen (2/04, p.48) - "[The album] displays an artist coming to terms with what she does best. The result is her strongest recording to date."0.2106424
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Uncut (p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Her bucolic, innocent, autumnal folk songs and gentle, husky, Nico-esque voice place her in a similar niche to Nick Drake or John Martyn..."0.2106424
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Dirty Linen (p.82) - "The tunes are played with power, but not with brute force. A broad pallet of time signatures is explored..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hey have a remarkably clean, fluent sound, whipping up a frenzy without ever forcing the issue."0.2106424
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Dirty Linen (p.54) - Throughout, Sansone performs in that hold-your-breath emotive style that has the listener hanging onto every note..."0.2106424
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Entertainment Weekly (1/28/94, p.56) - "...With its squeaky guitars and cow-punk melodies, the group lurches into a world of its own, resulting in music with a ramshackle charm...." - Rating: B+Option (8/94, pp.100-101) - "...like Neil Young or Gram Parsons, he inhabits a territory somewhere in between those two extremes, a tuneful, potent guitarist and songwriter who can inexplicably and unexpectedly veer in any direction..."0.2106424
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Rolling Stone (p.71) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he rapper still waxes poetic with the old boho bounce as he lounges in the club or decries the evils of American culture."Spin (p.104) - "BLACK UP impresses most with its beguiling sounds, especially the verdant keyboard washes of 'Are You...Can You...Were You? (Felt)'..."CMJ - "Butler drops sparse, fragmented beats beneath a web of reverb-dripping vocals and muffled synths, while also leaning on soul tropes and old-world melodies..."Q (Magazine) (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] the lava-like bass and shuddering beats suggesting a familiarity with dubstep's experimental margins."Mojo (Publisher) (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]n the category of great rap reinventions, file it next to Daniel Dumile's post-KMD rebirth as MF Doom and Ultramagnetic's MC Kool Keith re-training as Dr Octagon."Pitchfork (Website) - "[I]f some of Butler's rhymes and sonics are breezier than before, his tracks still retain their moody, hard-thudding, and sometimes psychedelic atmospheres."Uncut (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "There's an earworm-like lure in every track, but the hushed, frantically percussive 'Yeah You' is a highlight."0.2106424
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