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Jun 25, 2014Although the construction of these songs are as stacked as on other F&O albums, this time around, the piling up of bridges, solos, and refrains only adds to House of Spirits’ tangible claustrophobia.
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Jun 12, 2014Wymond Miles’s imaginative guitar work is often enough to cover a multitude of sins (see the scorching lead on “Hummingbird” and the minimal flourishes on “April Fools”). For some listeners that will be enough, but overall the record feels structured more like a career-spanning live set than a cohesive collection.
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Jun 10, 2014House of Spirits isn't exactly urgent, but there's pleasure in its slowness.
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Jun 4, 2014Much of the album largely lives and dies by how much The Fresh & Onlys can animate five-decades old materials.
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Jun 4, 2014The Fresh & Onlys’ most cohesive record yet, House Of Spirits doesn’t break any new ground or take any unexpected detours, but rather solidifies their position as the foremost new-wave revivalists around. Read more at http://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/fresh-onlys-house-spirits#cdqLV5AbrbDVF9DB.99
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Jun 10, 2014It's all moodily pleasant but never immersive. House of Spirits is a slow-burner that ultimately chokes on the ashes of its own grayscale lethargy.
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Jun 11, 2014Where Tim Cohen’s vocals should soar, scream or sink low, they remain at a consistent monotone, rendering his occasionally poetic lyrics into lukewarm sentiments that do not invite further investigation.
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Jun 11, 2014House of Spirits is the saturnine successor nobody asked for, a detour though a bramble patch running parallel to a stretch of open road.
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Jun 4, 2014House of Spirits is a half-success, showing promise and ambition but lacking both the direction and the songs to be anything but a minor addition to the band’s catalogue.