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| n/a by www.adequacy.net |
Confident, daring, regal, and altogether incredible, Bows & Arrows knows its bounds and casually out-steps them; simply put, it is the best record released this year. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Each of these songs displays a mastery of craft rarely heard. |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
Looks back to prehistoric U2 and Cure records for inspiration. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
Bows and Arrows is an album of grandiose pleasures, the sound of a band not just making good on the promise of their debut, but expanding every which way at once, merging distinctive songcraft with decadent theatrics, and tethering themselves to a confidence that they, unlike others, will survive the sea-change of a deflating scene. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
Musically, the Walkmen are not only tighter, but also more purposeful. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
It's tumultuous. It's breathtaking. It's expressive without the barest hint of Radiomuse indulgence. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
This is a work that blends a preoccupation with both the maudlin and mundane with the musical sensibility of the Factory Records collection. |
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| n/a by www.theonionavclub.com |
Though sonically similar to its predecessor, the new album sets aside whimsical wandering to make room for more straight-for-the-heart (by way of the throat) conviction; simply put, it rocks harder. |
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| n/a by NME |
Overwhelmingly, it all adds up to an album that will never make a fuss in your collection, but every now and then you'll remember how much you love it. |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
Even with a couple of missteps, this is a solid album that will likely stay in heavy rotation on your stereo for months to come. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
Quite simply, 'Bows + Arrows' is a Great American Record, taking the qualities most admired in the last 35 years of US rock and barbecuing them together. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
The songwriting and production are sharper and the scope is decidedly larger, capturing the band’s conflicting urge to play the introspective balladeer and the pub-crawling mod-rocker. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
The Walkmen have something the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs are lacking: passion. |
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| n/a by Junkmedia |
This is at once a record to rock out to, a record to contemplate, and a record to immediately buy if you think it impossible for a band this well-hyped to defy their own press. |
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| n/a by www.almostcool.org |
All in all, the album is a good one, but still feels a small step away from being great. |
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| n/a by www.noripcord.com |
Many numbers, such as the unbearably meandering No Christmas While I’m Talking, present themselves as merely background music - pleasant enough, sure, but doing little to draw the listener’s attention. |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
I'm not writing the Walkmen off just yet, but this is a genre that you can't afford to stay in one place and hope to keep an edge on the competition. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
Yet where the music is hard-hitting, the hoarse, almost drunken vocal style of lead singer Hamilton Leithauser can be grating. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
‘Bows And Arrows’ isn’t a bad album, merely average, struggling to match the level of excitement generated by the brilliant single ‘The Rat’. |
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| n/a by Rolling Stone |
With his gasping vocals serving up warmed-over pleas, Hamilton Leithauser aches but never sounds like he's really hurting. |
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