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Feb 3, 2014Even if it takes a little more effort than expected to fall under the spell he's casting, Abandoned Apartments' finest moments make it one of Jay's best blends of dreamy surrealism and crisp-edged pop in some time.
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Feb 3, 2014Despite the aforementioned darkwave influences, it’s not that his earworms get leechlike hooks into you--but that, while you’re caught listening and daydreaming, strands of ivy poke tentative tendrils into the eardrum, and deeper.
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MojoFeb 3, 2014It's darker and starker, more 4am despair than midnight rendezvous. [Feb 2014, p.97]
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Feb 3, 2014Songs usually don't develop past their first five seconds, and the album slides back out of your attention field quickly.