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| 3.5 by Rolling Stone |
On their 2005 breakthrough, "Easy Beat," Dr. Dog made scruffy indie
rock that pushed pleasure buttons while showing the band's seriously retro
steez. We All Belong is even better. The Philly quintet's... |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
Like pals My Morning Jacket, Dr. Dog blend ''classic rock'' elements into woozy, idiosyncratic songs all their own. |
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| n/a by altpress.com |
We All Belong is phenomenally consistent. |
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| n/a by www.adequacy.net |
Everything comes together in a melting pot of rock and pop that is both delightful and intriguing. It has melodies, smart and quirky lyrics, and the band features some unique musicianship that is executed well. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
They're totally authentic about being inauthentic. Like Guitar Bob, that makes them easy to love. |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Spend any time with We All Belong's winning songs about wonderment, disappointment, and packing up and moving on and you'll find a lot of work. |
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| n/a by www.sputnikmusic.com |
While the most fitting genre to place Dr. Dog’s latest, We All Belong , in may be Indie-Pop, the 12 songs that make it up don’t sound a whole lot like The Shins or Death Cab for Cutie. We All Belong instead sounds like an album that was buried in Brian Wilson’s backyard for 40 or so years. |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
Ultimately, We All Belong hints at the band's innocuousness. Nothing here offends, but there's nothing anywhere near compelling, either. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Hold it by its edges and the experience of this album suffers––the rocky center is where we find personal truths writ well. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Dr. Dog simply doesn’t offer us anything new, or anything else worth listening to. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
While the album revels in retro cross-pollination, and the title track's dream that "It won't be long before we all belong to love," echoes Lennon's counterpoint of responsibility throughout, Dr. Dog's zealous frivolity is infectious but ultimately fleeting. |
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| n/a by thephoenix.com |
Those vocal harmonies are used to good effect in the blue-eyed-soul tune 'Alaska.' But 'Die Die Die,' a slow and raggedy piece of psychedelia complete with funereal organ but thrown askew by out-of-place handclaps, is far too taken in by its own gloom. |
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