Indie folkie modern rock shanty-chanters strike again with a song that sounds like that!…
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Alfred Soto: More like “Molehill Sound.”
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Anthony Easton: A great country song could be constructed with hand claps and the phrase “hold your horses,” especially with a plot about nocturnal fun. This is not it; in fact, this is not much of anything. Plus, his voice wanders around the note and never quite hits it.
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Patrick St. Michel: Of Monsters And Men do this shout-along-core sound better than any of the other folk-tinged groups playing the festival circuits today (The Lumineers, Mumford And Sons), but it ultimately just sounds like the product of a band who listened to Arcade Fire’s Funeral a lot.
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Katherine St Asaph: Of Monsters and Men was created by Demand Media’s algorithm to answer the question “who is Arcade Fire?” They comprise male vocalist Waistcoats, female vocalist Florence Squelched, an indeterminate amount of musicians and a sentient box of authentic tea bags purchased in an Appalachian gift shop. They are utterly amiable. They sing about nature for those whose landscapes are digital; they live in a tent in the brush bordering your freeway. Since their success, they’ve purchased a second home in the Billboard charts. They intend to never, ever leave it.
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Ramzi Awn: One of those rousing choruses that removes itself from the irony of indie pop just enough to endear itself. Something here is authentic — despite the uncanny ease with which it could fit in a Bing commercial.
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Will Adams: A logical but frustrating choice for a follow-up single, “Mountain Sound” doesn’t really carve out anything that “Little Talks” hadn’t already. Even in isolation, it has the effect of an agreeable but forgettable album track.
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Brad Shoup: Please don’t sleep until the sun goes down, unless your hours of employment require it. You need to be around people, even if they’re just shuffling a couple melodic ideas around and bellowing “whoa” like seemingly every folksy band coming down the volcano.
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Jonathan Bogart: Is it too late to make a Stuff White People Like joke?
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