Grimsey, if not grimey.
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Iain Mew: Normally I have a pretty high tolerance for lyrical tweeness but this song which rubs me the wrong way. To some extent it’s a compliment, because the biggest problem is the gap between the musical creativity effortlessly creating a startling and enchanting world and the words, which don’t. They draw on fairy tales but not to say anything intereting about them and, eyelid holes aside, they’re too mundane to be strange and too try-hard to be ignored.
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Brad Shoup: It’s super hard to tell a fairy tale in the confines of a movie trailer.
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Anthony Easton: So how come I don’t like prog rock, but I like this quite a bit, and how come this reminds me of a kind of prog rock?
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Alfred Soto: The sample-stutter and wobbly 808s take us back to 1984; the vocal is diluted Stacy Q, alas. I mean, does she really need all that echo? Fortunately the line “I’ve been unruly in my dreams” gets the spotlight it deserves.
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Jonathan Bogart: For about a year now, I’ve been confusing them with the Promise Ring, which is probably unfair to both acts. But now that I’ve actually heard Purity Ring’s music, I only care about being unfair to them. The work here reminds me of the unparalleled excellence of collage as an aesthetic concern: while I’m sure some throughline exists in the minds of Mega James and Corin Roddick, I hear disjuncture and disparateness welded so tightly together that it creates a new, seamless whole.
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Katherine St Asaph: This was such a beautiful song before the accident.
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