“Could be worse with a ukulele” really says it all, doesn’t it?…
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Anthony Easton: Three minutes of cosmic babble and neo-hippie wordlessness. I spent the last three weeks on the West Coast, and this kind of acoustic rampant-ego-pretending-to-be-humble sound was all over the place. I do not look forward to hearing this after escaping from those enclaves. Could be worse with a ukulele.
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Alfred Soto: Not aware of too many things, she knows what she knows, you know what I mean?
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Juana Giaimo: Lacking a warm and honest love song, Echosmith thought they could replace it with lots of metaphors and an uncatchy “oh la la la” — but a formula isn’t always enough.
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Micha Cavaseno: Everything this band does screams “self-obsessed dork.” But now it’s “self-obsessed dorks doing #AMERICANA.” It’s peculiar though how easily they can pretend to be a dozen different bands without ever having any likable qualities. There’s some identifiable ones though. Being TOTAL NERDS!!!! *throws crumpled paper at this band*
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Mo Kim: Every cohort of high school kids needs their Paramore, I guess.
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Josh Winters: A rightful successor to Taylor’s lovestruck backyard-porch strummers.
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Brad Shoup: This may feel overstuffed with imagery, but if all you’ve got is a telescope and a field, I imagine you’ll start personifying all kinds of bodies. “Bright” keeps feinting toward a big hook, but everyone curls back into that solemn thock. So it’s a moodpiece, assured and reserved, and completely not embarrassing.
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Katherine St Asaph: I’ll still defend “Cool Kids,” and the vocalist does well with her Musgraves qualities, but this is like a theme song for a movie adaptation of Stargirl. Styled after “Drops of Jupiter.”
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