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5.0 out of 5 stars
Post-folk/loose, psychedelic chamber folk/hippie campfire jazz-pop
On Private Cinema, Slaraffenland wander through the various realms inhabited by Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Bardo Pond, Pinback, and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. A bit crunchy on the surface but urbane and even stark just below it. Most of all, this record is sublime. Guitars, brass, woodwinds, drums, a bit of electronics, male hippie-choral vocals. If you pay...
Published on May 5, 2008 by M. Jason
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Slaraffen sluff
When "Watch Out" didn't pick up immediately and kick it after the "better watch out" refrain and drifted into soft horns, I knew I wasn't going to like this nearly as much as I might. It's like that pretty much all through, it sounds like it's going to slide into a shoegazer cascade, and the musical ideas are such that you're anticipating good things, but instead it...
Published on December 9, 2007 by Nobody
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Post-folk/loose, psychedelic chamber folk/hippie campfire jazz-pop, May 5, 2008
This review is from: Private Cinema (Audio CD)
On Private Cinema, Slaraffenland wander through the various realms inhabited by Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Bardo Pond, Pinback, and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. A bit crunchy on the surface but urbane and even stark just below it. Most of all, this record is sublime. Guitars, brass, woodwinds, drums, a bit of electronics, male hippie-choral vocals. If you pay attention, this Copenhagen band even know how to be scary. A frighteningly good album that sneaks up on you. This is their second full-length. Limited edition EP due this summer as they tour the US with fellow Danes Efterklang.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Slaraffen sluff, December 9, 2007
This review is from: Private Cinema (Audio CD)
When "Watch Out" didn't pick up immediately and kick it after the "better watch out" refrain and drifted into soft horns, I knew I wasn't going to like this nearly as much as I might. It's like that pretty much all through, it sounds like it's going to slide into a shoegazer cascade, and the musical ideas are such that you're anticipating good things, but instead it noodles around, bringing in other (generally unwanted) instruments and settles for being eclectic rather than electric. It's all build up and no pay off, long passages where either nothing happens, or a ramp gets built leading to nowhere, like "Rod". Which is too bad, because it sounds like they could be really interesting if they played a little more like countrymates Mew and less like Blue Aeroplanes, if you know what I mean. I guess they're actually more what I imagined a Danish prog band would sound like. Well, other bands started like this (for example Sky Cries Mary), and eventually got past the noise phase and produced gold, so we'll see, but pass for now.
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