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| 3.5 by Rolling Stone |
The timing is excellent for Mercury Rev to make one of their best albums yet. Since the release of this Catskills-based group's 2001 album All Is Dream, friends and kindred souls like the Flaming Lips... |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
Without relying on a crutch of irony and cynicism, they boldly risk sounding cloying in order to summon the emotional honesty necessary to create music that is unabashedly romantic and achingly beautiful. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
Like 'Deserter Songs' and 'All Is Dream' before, 'The Secret Migration' is a compelling, visual album. And yet within this, Mercury Rev have moved on. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
The difference here is that Mercury Rev have paired down the fringes, allowing the bizarre to slip through the sieve. Only the songs remain. And what gorgeous songs about love and optimism they are. |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
Those who like Mercury Rev like them a lot; so while The Secret Migration doesn't happen to migrate into new territory, they are the type of band that could go on making the same album forever and we wouldn't care. |
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| n/a by www.adequacy.net |
If there’s any fault with this album, it’s the predictability in the songs: there are no hidden surprises, lacking any real breathtaking shifts or unexpected twists waiting to throw the unwary listener off-guard. |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
There's great beauty here, but, as with The Secret Migration's horrid sleeve, the sense that things have been pared down slightly too far suggests Mercury Rev still suffer from an inability to tell indulgence and exploration apart. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
As with previous LPs, “The Secret Migration” works as a set-piece but, with the strings kept on a tighter leash and the production less fulsome, it’s easier to notice the details. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
The Secret Migration is a beautiful-sounding record, but Deserter's Songs managed to sound spectacular and still work in adventurous detours. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
Ultimately, nobody's likely to claim The Secret Migration as a great album, I'm afraid. But it possesses energy and inspiration that its predecessor greatly lacked, and even the weaker songs here have something to recommend. |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
In stripping things back Mercury Rev suggest that in their case more actually was more, that bereft of the digressions and expansions they're just another band with a nasal, naïve-sounding singer, a way with a hook and a penchant for using the studio as an instrument. |
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| n/a by www.lostatsea.net |
The Secret Migration has the power to cast a spell over you with its dreamy, wraithlike keyboards. Many won't fall for it, though, and will undoubtedly find them too melodramatic. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
The Secret Migration is a wonderful record, full of exquisite indie-rock epics. But so was the last Mercury Rev record. And the one before that. So what’s changed? Nothing, basically. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
This band simply isn’t the same without a little darkness to balance the overwhelming light, and rarely do the songs pick up the slack. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
With The Secret Migration, the band completely deserts the peculiarities that distinguished them from both peers and progeny in favor of a dull collection of pastoral fantasias that frequently wander dangerously close to adult contemporary. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
Where once we got shivers up our spines from this band's music, now we're just left cold. |
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| 8 by Aftonbladet |
En visare man än jag sa nyligen att riktigt bra texter, de har författaren inte den blekaste vad han menade med när de skrevs. Poängen är aldrig att leta efter författarens intentioner med sitt verk. ... |
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| 8 by Dagensskiva.com |
En visare man än jag sa nyligen att riktigt bra texter, de har författaren inte den blekaste vad han menade med när de skrevs. Poängen är aldrig att leta efter författarens intentioner med sitt verk. ... |
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