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Dec 3, 2013Overflowing with strong writing and excellent playing, City Forgiveness earns every minute of its two-CD sprawl.
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Oct 21, 2013While City Forgiveness does allow the trio breathing room, they never use that space to justify the length--they’re doing what they do, and doing it well, but the over-familiarity when faced with 90 minutes of this stuff does great songs a disservice.
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Oct 21, 2013‘The Yellow Roses’ typifies the lull in the album’s mid-section, and is all the more annoying when you realise how special this record could have been with a little more quality control.
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Oct 21, 2013This does feel like an album of transition--about the journey rather than the destination and its more sophisticated moments point towards the idea that The Wave Pictures are a band which are only going to get finer with age.