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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
While Circular Sounds isnt quite the modern sound of the American west coast, it feels very much like the classic sound of California: a sound left blissfully alone by the stresses and rigours of a modernity forever on the move. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
Circular Sounds takes the craft aspect to a higher level. Stoltzs early records were scrappy, guitar-centric home recordings, and his previous LP, Below the Branches, was a piano-dominated, primary colors affair, but this one is a study in how to blend signifiers and sonorities so that they enhance each other. |
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| n/a by www.uncut.co.uk |
Circular Sounds is a collection of snappy, mildly psychedelic, instantly memorable songs, delivered with an unfussy and becoming modesty. |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Circular Sounds is brimming with unidentifiable gasps and skronks, and while it occasionally seems like Stoltz, a longtime advocate of home recording, spends a little too much time knee-deep in obscure noisemakers, his scrappiest tracks are also his best. |
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| n/a by Rolling Stone |
Sure, it might be nice if Stoltz could innovate more with his influences, like the Pet Sounds impressionism of Panda Bear's Person Pitch. But flashbacks this vivid are good enough for now. |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
From beginning to end Circular Sounds feels familiar. And with only one track (just) over four minutes, Stoltz holds true to pop convention in length as well as arrangements. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Circular Sounds can feel impersonal, especially in how Stoltz hopscotches from voice to voice, some far stronger than others. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Stoltz knows that sometimes the best way through anything, from hangovers to hopelessness, requires just good pop, a steady beat and the sound that everythings okay. Thats what he does very well. |
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| n/a by arts.guardian.co.uk |
In this bruised, romantic world, waking up with hangovers and noticing the empty side of the bed is the norm; for people experiencing or remembering similar situations, this is a nice aural comforter. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
It's very catchy, but the center doesn't hold. |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
Except for the admittedly awesome surf-rock instrumental 'Reflecting,' theres nothing done on Circular Sounds that you cant find done better on old vinyl, battered mixtapes, and (shudder) Counting Crows albums. |
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