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TAPES 'N TAPES "The Loon" Reviews
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Release: 4 Apr 2006
Label: Ibid Records
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 10.0 |
Crashing forth on the latest wave of Internet hype, Tapes 'n Tapes are to one generation an incredible new noise and to another the promise that their old favourites from the 80s and 90s didn't grow old, split up or get fat, but rather remained angry and serated, and possessed four lads from Minnesota.
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| Lost At Sea magazine |
Rating: 9.0 |
A near-perfect album.
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| MusicEmissions.com |
Rating: 9.0 |
The Loon is an album that most indie rock fans should add to their collection. There is hardly a fault on it.
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| CokeMachineGlow |
Rating: 8.4 |
The Loon succeeds where other indie debuts stall, and it lays in Tapes ’n Tapes' acute awareness of how people will approach their music.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 8.3 |
A rich, participatory, and eminently repeatable experience.
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| FakeJazz |
Rating: 8.3 |
The debut full-length CD from the "Brothers Tapes," as they call themselves, is a diverse yet consistent album. Filled with Pixies-influenced sing-a-long tunes, The Loon never delivers a sub-par track.
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| NME |
Rating: 8.0 |
T 'N T sidestep the hype to prove the true spirit of indie is in fine fettle
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| SoundsXP |
Rating: 8.0 |
They’re an ordinary looking band infected by a mad genius, who have produced an album that defies words and rewards listening.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 8.0 |
Tapes 'n Tapes might have to dismantle their influences soon. But right now, they're building something beautiful.
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 8.0 |
'The Loon' retains a genuinely empathetic sincerity that deserves applause, but should be praised to a greater degree for bringing weird, left-of-centre indie back to the fore and giving it a fighting chance against the dreary footfalls of tension and release plied by the likes of Editors et al. Top dollar.
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| Slant Magazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
Deftly fractured rock, complete with jagged time signatures and yelped vocals that recall David Byrne, Win Butler, and Alec Ounsworth in equal measure, is Tapes 'n Tapes' stock-in-trade and much of The Loon—unchanged for its debut on XL—is a sprawling delight that only gets richer with each successive listen.
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| Jam! |
Rating: 7.0 |
What tomorrow holds for Tapes 'N Tapes is anybody's guess, but today is their lucky day. Yours too.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 7.0 |
The Loon is really likeable: here’s a solid, solid debut with enough tunes to last the summer, at least.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 7.0 |
The Loon is a nice listen -- especially the band's more ambitious songs ("Manitoba," "10 Gallon Ascot" and "Omaha") -- and I'm just being a prickly jerk because someone has to.
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| Treble |
Rating: 7.0 |
The eleven songs that make up The Loon are warm and fuzzy, yet angular and abrasive.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 6.0 |
The askew rockabilly of the single Insistor is appropriately insistent and neat touches abound in this reissue of their 2005 US debut. But one suspects they have been elevated beyond their talent.
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| Dotmusic |
Rating: 6.0 |
To be fair, "The Loon" stops short of pastiche, but it is too transparently a paean to Tape 'n Tapes' heroes. The bunting, it seems, has been prematurely unfurled.
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| Sound Generator |
Rating: 6.0 |
On the whole an accomplished album that will be on some 'albums of the year' list. For me they just need to differentiate themselves to get to near that stage.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 5.0 |
It’s not that Tapes ‘n Tapes lacks engaging material; in fact many of their extended song sequences and bridges pump more oxygen into the corpse of indie than most such bands might ever attempt. But their genre-mashing makes for a grating twist-up of an album.
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