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| 5 by Rolling Stone |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
Smile is quite simply the greatest triumph in the history of pop music. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
Against all expectations, Brian Wilson has achieved what should have been impossible, and has produced what may be the year's most thrilling album. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
This is a brilliant record, just as it's always been. |
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| n/a by www.amazon.com |
Turns out those hypothetical comparisons to Sgt. Pepper's weren't so far off the mark. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
It’s spellbinding. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
SMiLE has arrived as incredible and ground-breaking a record as any of us could have hoped. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
While it may not be the ultimate symphonic confection nearly four decades of hyperbole have all but guaranteed, Smile is nonetheless an arresting, audacious, unabashedly whimsical slice of junk-drawer Americana and can-do pop craftsmanship. |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
The magic of the album lies in the way Wilson's complex, challenging sonic vision can evoke the optimism, hope, and wonder that gave birth to this album decades ago. |
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| n/a by avclub.theonion.com |
The new Smile not only justifies its bearing, but also serves as a major triumph. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
Whatever it was supposed to achieve originally, right now SMiLE sounds like a beautifully modulated, funny, sometimes unintentional meditation on a failed United States and counterculture, and the lost paradise, real or imagined, of Southern California, and the collapse and reinvention of the male ego. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
This is pop music like nothing before it, or since. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
The end result is a great album, albeit one more lighthearted than its myth would suggest. |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
While undeniably ambitious and moving in parts--with sunny harmonies and layered production--it also happens to be a little kitschy. |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
Despite the hype, it is hard not to be impressed with the new Smile.... The music flows beautifully - no mean feat when it encompasses barbershop singing, acid rock, early pop, Hawaiian chanting and mock-religious plainsong. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
The most obvious aspect that takes away from Smile's luster however, is an uncomfortable sense that the album has morphed into a quaint piece of nostalgia rather than the masterwork it was expected to be. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
Hearing the newly recorded album as a completed work instead of dismembered modules is a rollicking reassertion of Wilson's compositional genius. |
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| n/a by Aftonbladet |
När Brian Wilson tidigare i år framförde konsertversionen av "Smile" kände jag mitt i all upprymdhet en viss besvikelse. Nog hade jag anat att originalinspelningarnas subtila nyanser inte kund... |
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| n/a by SVD |
När Brian Wilson tidigare i år framförde konsertversionen av "Smile" kände jag mitt i all upprymdhet en viss besvikelse. Nog hade jag anat att originalinspelningarnas subtila nyanser inte kund... |
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